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-
- Author of this document:
-
- Tommi Nieminen
- Pajulankatu 8
- 37150 Nokia
- FINLAND
- E-mail: sktoni@kielo.uta.fi or Tommi.Nieminen@uta.fi (Internet)
-
- This package contains a pilot interpreter by Dave Taylor from the year
- 1985--that's a long time ago and the program isn't really neither very
- useful nor very clever, but because there aren't too many weird program-
- ming languages currently available for OS/2, I thought it appropriate to
- port it. There was no docs in the original package, but since DT has
- marked the source code with his own copyright, I thought it wise to
- include ALL the original files in this package too.
-
- NOTE: I made Pilot ignore lines beginning with "EXTPROC" to make it
- an OS/2 external command processor. To try this feature out, rename
- `test.pil' to `test.cmd', and add the following line at the beginning
- of the file:
-
- extproc pilot
-
- Case is not significant. If `pilot.exe' is not in the current directory
- or in PATH, add full directory name (eg. `extproc D:\bin\pilot'). Then
- you can run Pilot programs just like any other OS/2 scripts!
-
- WARNING: currently the `.cmd' file has to be in the current directory
- when running it, ie. even though OS/2 finds every `.cmd' file in the
- PATH and tries to run it, `pilot.exe' does NOT search the PATH, and
- hence can't find the script.
-
- Files included in this package (dates are in day-mon-year format, if you
- hadn't figured it out yet):
-
- 1.08.93 10.07 208 0 average.pil
- 27.01.86 14.15 27011 0 msdos-pilot.c
- 6.11.86 22.07 15492 0 msdos-pilot.exe
- 27.01.86 14.14 1742 0 pilot.bnf
- 18.08.93 19.31 32420 0 pilot.c
- 18.08.93 19.41 50361 49 pilot.exe
- 18.08.93 19.46 2937 0 read.me
- 18.08.93 19.34 12128 0 test.pil
-
- `msdos-pilot.exe' is the `pilot.exe' file of the original package
- (MS-DOS executable). `pilot.c' was modified by me to get it compiled
- with gcc 2.4.5 and emx 0.8g. The original source is included as
- `msdos-pilot.c'.
-
- `test.pil' was originally named `pilot.tst'; it is a test program you
- can try out with:
-
- [D:\] pilot test.pil
-
- `average.pil' is my own addition, a simple test program that calculates
- averages of numbers.
-
- Pilot CAI was compiled using Eberhard Mattes' emx 0.8g package but it
- does NOT need the emx runtime libraries. To recompile it, use
-
- [D:\] gcc -Zomf -Zsys -Zstack 0x8000 -o pilot.exe pilot.c
-
- The stack size may not better the best possible choice, so if you find
- a better one, that's great. (Note: to be able to use `-Zsys', you will
- have to run `omflib.cmd' first; that should be located in your library
- directory.)
-
- Tommi Nieminen
- 18-Aug-1993
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