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- From: zrzs0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Helmut Springer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn,comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Monty Pythons most used sentence
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:44:17 GMT
- Organization: User Help Desk, Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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- "And now to something completely different"
-
- In past there were a few questions about PD/shareware/freeware modula2 compiler.
- I heard there is (was) a port of m2c (translator modula to c) to the
- archimedes/RISCOS, but it doesn't run proper (crunshing memory sometimes or
- something like this ...)
- I also heard also, there is (was) a port of gnu-emacs, also with problems.
- On the one hand, I understand, that porters don't want to be blamed for
- such bugs, but if a package, which can be ported to other hosts without
- problems and compile without warnings, we should blame either
- the library, the compiler or the prinziples of the system (most that ...).
- The tragic part of not publicing not perfect
- ported PD/shareware/freeware programs is, that other people would real need
- this programs (also if they have to try some things twice before they run ...)
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- Has someone build a module with a "save, easy useable, not crunshing"
- method to request memory (for RISCOS 2.00)?
- If you request memory with OS_Module, the memory can't given back, if a
- other module gets loaded.
- If you request memory with WIMP_SlotSize, you may run into programs which
- sits already in the memory (cause of BBC 6502 compatibility ?) and twice
- this method has no garbage collection ...
- It seams, that good old MSDOS v. 2.00 has better memory allocation routines
- than this one on the archimedes 8-(
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- Has someone find a method to replace OS_ReportError with a WIMP-tasking
- errorviewer ?
- With the old (RISCOS 2.0) version of a errorviewer the machine freeze ....
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- Can the programmers of zap and stronged help the porter of the wimp-version
- of microemacs ? (they don't loose too much, if they give him a few obeyfiles
- with a discription ...)
- Especially the minimal macintosh-like curser makes wimp-emacs unusable for me
- (B&W-monitor ...) compared with the blockcursors of stronged and zap.
- In my option microemacs should not start with a open window in top of anything
- other after startup, but this is a other thing ....
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- Has someone find a method for a "forkviewer" ? A program that shows text
- but do not block the calling obeyscript.
- Example:
- obeycommand1
- ;eg. running a compiler
- forkview file
- ;eg. viewing a file with warnings
- obeycommand2
- ;e.g. running a linker
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- Do someone know, how far are the ports of gcc and adaed ?
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- so long
-
- "And now to something completely different"
-
- MUFTI
-
- --
- Helmut Springer aka delta University of Stuttgart
- User HelpDesk Computing Center Physics Department
- springer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de springer@physik.uni-stuttgart.de
- phone: +49 711 685-4828 1291::helmut (BelWue)
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