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Steve, thanks but alas, no "b". Steve (PS- I like your name and initials!)
Hmm… Well, I'm not going to get involved in any C-ports (Hello, Sailor) but I am curious as to how it goes on VAX C to PC. If you post some comments about your experiences, I'll read them eagerly.
The reason the compiling advantage seems to be so small is that, when it comes down to it, the "interpreter" approach is really interpreting very little data (a couple Kb tops) and it can do that pretty quickly. And there's not all that much data that is compressable via compiling.…
I understood the word "compiled" to mean "made binary for execution". No confusion here. I'm a little startled to learn that compiling offers no advantage. Of course, I'm not doing MUCH "compiling" myself. Basically, just using an index file mechanism to link the tree together. Actually, embedded record pointers are…
Carl, Re: multiple languages, correct. For the record I'm not *really* talking about *compiled* menus. What I'm talking about is more aptly described as "preprocessed-to-binary" menus, as opposed to a scheme where the text must be interpreted by the menu processor from plain-text form. So we're not really talking about…
Bill, Just guessing offhand, I would doubt that there would be any advantages to compiled menus under MS-DOS. They would simply have to be kept in a larger .EXE file as opposed to a separate data file, and it's easy enough to write a program that uses pointers to read…
David, You're absolutely right to suggest "consider the market". I must not have been clear… what I would want to do is a generic MS-DOS version that would run on any MS-DOS machine (though I would certainly not be averse to any Rainbow-specific enhancements ;-}). I'm not sure what specs…
Yes, the menu system I've been developing is in Turbo Pas xXX make that Turbo Pascal. No, I'm not interested in porting anything that's not PD to the Rainbow. If we're talking commercial here, I think you have to consider the market. PD is different. "Just for fun" commands a…
See my new upload of Vinzenz Esser's WUTIL 3.2, which works great under Suitable Solutions' MS-DOS 3.10b and makes all this much easier. – Willett Kempton
Mike/Roy (Hey, if you can be confused, so can I…) The menu system I have *is* in C, but it's not written for MS-DOS and never really had that environment in mind. It's currently supported on VMS, and has had prior incarnations on UNIX and RSX-11M. David is working on…
I'm not entirely sure what you guys are discussing (a menu system of some sort that you, Bill, have source code for in a language other than C), but count me as an "anyone else" for now, at least. I think it was the direct screen writes that got me.…
Y'know… it occurs to me, after our earlier messages on this subject and reading your reply… I do have *some* interest in seeing my menu program ported to MS-DOS. There are a couple of reasons: It would give me a clue as to how hard most of the rest of…
You had to ask, didn't you… 😉 Well, here goes, 1) Somewhere along the line, I picked up the idea that most menu packages did direct screen writes for speed, and that that would prevent them from running in the 'Bow enviroment. From your comments, I gather I'm mistaken. 2)…
Try Norton's DT utility.
I agree . . . I have Tom Jennings' SCAVENGE which was apparently written for generic MS-DOS v.2 or 3, and Suitable Solutions' HDSCAN which was distributed with a package of "fixes" for Rainbow DOS 2.11. Now that I'm running v.3.10b, one of my hard disk blocks seems to be…
#Hard Disk Utilities
Message #21336
IS there a utility out there (commercial or PD) that will fix bad sectors on a R'bow hard disk? Everything I've found seems specific for PC_DOS…Steve
LA50
Message #21333
Carl, I've uploaded LA50.EXE and LA50.INF that can be used to set/reset am LA50 printer. Not as sophisticated as some printer utilities, but short and flexible. I have a Panasonic KX-P1124 (with serial adapter board, running at 9600 baud) in Epson LQ2500 emulation mode on the printer port of my…
WUTIL
Message #21331
Roy, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL
Message #21330
Steve, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL
Message #21329
Willett, see my message 21328 re WUTIL…Steve
WUTIL v3.12/DOS v3.10
Message #21328
Re the question of WUTIL/MS-DOS compatibility: I have just used WUTIL to format a Seagate ST251-1 (40 MB capacity, 28 ms access) in my R'bow with two DOS partitions of 8 and 32 MB. The latter is the biggest partition possible, and you obviously could specify several smaller ones though…
David, Not to discourage you, but I have to ask the obvious question. With all the *dozens* of MS-DOS menu programs that are over in the IBM forums, many/most of which (I'd guess) are generic enough to work on the Rainbow… why? Call me a cynic, or an old something-else…
#Menu Interface?
Message #21314
After many years of using the command interface, I finally crumbled and wanted a menu interface to my common office work functions like word processing and spreadsheets, and for my kids to access games. What with directories of documents, etc., there was just too much that I didn't want to…
Sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about. Surely I am not the intended recipient.
Version 2.06 is the latest I've uploaded, a major improvement over version 1. (Sysop: If version 1 is still in the library, it should probably be deleted.)
Willett: Thanx for the quick response about DOG! I'll down-load it, and give it a try. jd
John, I, too, have used DOG occasionally. It's now in version 2.0x and seems pretty reliable. I had a bad experience with version 1.0x: I had a bad sector on my hard disk; DOG bombed out on that sector and left several files cross-linked. Fortunately, I had backups. From what…
I use DOG on my Rainbows all the time. It is totally MS-DOS generic and works great without needing Code Blue. It is shareware, but the author requests only a modest donation. I've uploaded it here to the Libaries. (DOG stands for Disk OrGanizer. It's not a comment on the…
#De-Fragmentation
Message #20890
Do any of you have experience with hard disk "de-fragmentation" programs on the Rainbow? Are there any public domain or commercial programs specifically for the Rainbow? Do any of the I*M programs work on the Rainbow with or without CodeBlue? Thanx for any help! jd /exit
#DEMM.SYS/ EMS
Message #20882
I am using a 320, MS.DOS 3.3, with 2Mb installed. When I include the line DEVICE = DEMM.SYS 64 In CONFIG.SYS, Ventura Publisher 2.0 will not admit that there is EMS, and tells me to go get some, and aborts. When I delete the above line from CONFIG.SYS and reboot,…