home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- Greetings.
-
- This is v2.35 of the freeware ACE BASIC compiler and is the first of
- what I expect will be a series of small updates to the ACE distribution
- in the next few months.
-
- Work and post-graduate study are keeping me very busy right now. As a
- consequence, small releases are all I can hope to get out to you for
- awhile. This at least means that as I implement interesting/useful
- features and fix bugs, you will reap the benefits quickly.
-
- The current revision (v2.35) is best described by saying that a number
- of bugs have been fixed from v2.3. I have also added one new feature,
- namely that the font and style of button text may now be specified
- for button gadget text.
-
- For complete details, see docs/history from 27/2/95 onwards.
-
- The next revision will improve upon the current implementation of
- subprogram library modules, a process which has begun in this
- release. One major improvement will be that global variables
- will be allowed in such modules. Other miscellaneous additions
- and problem fixes will be included in the next release also.
-
- To apply this update to your current ACE distribution, open a
- shell/CLI, cd to your main ACE directory (ACE:), copy the supplied
- LhA archive to that directory and unarc it. The files are:
-
- bin/ace
- lib/db.lib
- docs/history
- docs/ref.doc (only GADGET command has changed here).
-
- Another consequence of my being so busy right now is that v2.35
- has not been as rigorously tested as full releases normally are.
- I have tested around a dozen programs on the new binaries, but
- more testing is required to preclude the possibility of major bugs.
-
- Please feel free to test all the programs you can (including
- those in the v2.3 distribution) on v2.35 and please contact
- me if you find any bugs.
-
- Regards,
-
- David Benn, 12th March 1995
- e-mail: D.Benn@appcomp.utas.edu.au
-
- ps - please note that my snail-mail address has changed to:
-
- 9 Mayne Street,
- Invermay, Tasmania,
- 7248, Australia.
-
- and my home phone number to:
-
- (003) 261 461
- ---oOo---
-