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This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.

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GNUEMACS Message #13803
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Programming April 3, 1986 11:54 PM
I got the tape today, thanks. Now as soon as I unVAXenate it, (I know that was bad, don't fall out of your chair and hurt yourself) I will see what there is to see. Strange file format, but at least I can now read the tape. I wrote a…
GNUEMACS Message #13803
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Programming April 3, 1986 11:54 PM
I got the tape today, thanks. Now as soon as I unVAXenate it, (I know that was bad, don't fall out of your chair and hurt yourself) I will see what there is to see. Strange file format, but at least I can now read the tape. I wrote a…
#13597 Digital sound Message #13744
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Sound/Music/Speech April 3, 1986 10:04 AM
I suppose you could sync the writes that way, I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if you would get any anomalous sounds (or absence of sound) when one stopped and the next began, like a popping or moment of silence. In the openpod and hal sound files there is…
#13597 Digital sound Message #13744
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Sound/Music/Speech April 3, 1986 10:04 AM
I suppose you could sync the writes that way, I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if you would get any anomalous sounds (or absence of sound) when one stopped and the next began, like a popping or moment of silence. In the openpod and hal sound files there is…
#13019 #Digital sound Message #13020
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 29, 1986 2:33 PM
I might as well reply anyway, I will upload the source and binary today then, I will see if there is any savings to using amigarc. You do have it I presume? If there is not that big a compression I won't bother, the source is only about 3500 bytes…
#13015 #Digital sound Message #13018
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 29, 1986 2:26 PM
I will see about that today, (the uploading.) If I do it here it will be some days though before it becomes visible, how is the time delay over on PCS-155? * Reply: 13019 * RR 13015 +
#12748- Digital sound Message #13005
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 29, 1986 10:51 AM
I have gotten some of the sound files uploaded to my bbs by a person I know, and have found that you can concatenate the sound files by simply using the amiga join command. The most useful two to join are openpod.snd and hal.snd. just do join openpod.snd hal.snd as…
#12238 MUSIC Message #12248
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 21, 1986 4:28 AM
I presume that like wack though, metascope needs the binary image to be totally in memory? The Icon core image is at least 256K, (it is 261K on my wicat and SUN, so with Lattice C who knows) and I know the smallest workspace Icon grabs for itself on startup…
#12203- MUSIC Message #12247
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 21, 1986 4:15 AM
Hello, I have thought about Aztec but the docs I have said it uses register A5 as the frame pointer instead of A6 like lattice and most other 68000 compilers I have used. Icon's assembler portions presume that A6 is being used because Icon uses A3-A5 for its own frame…
#12098- #MUSIC Message #12121
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Audiophile March 20, 1986 9:59 AM
I thought a music program might actually be available or close anyway. (Foolish me… ) Icon is coming along except for its one rather serious flaw which I still cannot ferret out. This has never happened to me before, a bug that has resisted all my efforts for months to…
#11669- DL9 envvar.lbr Message #11806
From: GARY SARFF The Amiga Forum · Tool Box March 17, 1986 1:00 PM
Hi, I have just gotten back on CIS after a rather long enforced absence and saw your message. I wrote those programs and a friend uploaded them for me. They give amigados UNIX-like environment variables accessible from CLI and user written C programs. If you are at all familiar with…
#Grinding Message #6961
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment February 1, 1986 10:17 PM
Just popping in to say hi, have you been doing any "grinding" on smalltalk? I'm still grinding away on Icon, at the moment it has taken a giant step backwards and doesn't want to run much at all. Have you ever had one of those lives where…. I've been taking…
#Grinding Message #6961
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment February 1, 1986 10:17 PM
Just popping in to say hi, have you been doing any "grinding" on smalltalk? I'm still grinding away on Icon, at the moment it has taken a giant step backwards and doesn't want to run much at all. Have you ever had one of those lives where…. I've been taking…
#6835- #Lattice C Bug? Message #6944
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment February 1, 1986 6:17 PM
I think I'll wait for Aztec C, hopefully it will be a bit better at getting things right. It is supposed to generate better code than Lattice too. I know from a piece of one of my routines, the code was supposed to assign one structure to another, it so…
#6835- #Lattice C Bug? Message #6944
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment February 1, 1986 6:17 PM
I think I'll wait for Aztec C, hopefully it will be a bit better at getting things right. It is supposed to generate better code than Lattice too. I know from a piece of one of my routines, the code was supposed to assign one structure to another, it so…
#Lattice C Bug? Message #6731
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 30, 1986 1:48 PM
I need a second opinion about something, When lattice C, (I've got vers. 3.02) compiles the statement: if(i & (1
#Lattice C Bug? Message #6731
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 30, 1986 1:48 PM
I need a second opinion about something, When lattice C, (I've got vers. 3.02) compiles the statement: if(i & (1
#4953- MacWorks for the Amiga Message #5036
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 12, 1986 10:15 PM
When it is cleaned up. Right now there is one (I hope only one) last bug that is driving me quite mad. I can't track it down and trying to find it in 200K of machine code without a symbolic debugger is really a mess, but I feel I am…
#4953- MacWorks for the Amiga Message #5036
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 12, 1986 10:15 PM
When it is cleaned up. Right now there is one (I hope only one) last bug that is driving me quite mad. I can't track it down and trying to find it in 200K of machine code without a symbolic debugger is really a mess, but I feel I am…
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 11, 1986 8:56 AM
Source will probably be available "on request", source now is hovering at around 750K of code, really too much to upload. Even the executable is going to be about 200K+, I have been talking with john foust about turning it over to Amicus and letting them distribute it on their…
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 11, 1986 8:56 AM
Source will probably be available "on request", source now is hovering at around 750K of code, really too much to upload. Even the executable is going to be about 200K+, I have been talking with john foust about turning it over to Amicus and letting them distribute it on their…
#4712 C Shells Message #4850
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 10, 1986 10:29 PM
On my system at work we can also use up/down arrows to scroll through previous commands and the left right arrows to edit the line, the cursor can be anywhere on the line when you push return to invoke the line. Also something really nice is that you can type…
#4712 C Shells Message #4850
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 10, 1986 10:29 PM
On my system at work we can also use up/down arrows to scroll through previous commands and the left right arrows to edit the line, the cursor can be anywhere on the line when you push return to invoke the line. Also something really nice is that you can type…
#AMY-VMCO Message #4795
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Hardware January 10, 1986 7:45 AM
Just a question, does VMCO have any provision for the sex of the individual? I'm asking because it occured that since the amiga has all those controllable parameters for the voice: the sex, base frequency, speaking rate, sampling frequency, etc, that along with allowing someone to make their own face,…
#AMY-VMCO Message #4795
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Hardware January 10, 1986 7:45 AM
Just a question, does VMCO have any provision for the sex of the individual? I'm asking because it occured that since the amiga has all those controllable parameters for the voice: the sex, base frequency, speaking rate, sampling frequency, etc, that along with allowing someone to make their own face,…
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 10, 1986 7:38 AM
CthiJust what I was thinking the other day: "The amiga could make a great Smalltalk system if it could somehow be gotten onto the amiga intact." I wonder at the speed though, I am porting Icon to the Amiga and it is no great speeddemon, although a lot of that…
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · SoftwareDevelopment January 10, 1986 7:38 AM
CthiJust what I was thinking the other day: "The amiga could make a great Smalltalk system if it could somehow be gotten onto the amiga intact." I wonder at the speed though, I am porting Icon to the Amiga and it is no great speeddemon, although a lot of that…
#Icon/snobol/stuff Message #4518
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Community Square January 7, 1986 5:22 PM
Icon is almost done, the interpreter runs most Icon programs, just a few that don't seem to run for any reason I can determine. I've just downloaded the debugger from dl9 though, maybe it can tell me something, I've already been reduced to putting calls to printf and other routines…
#Icon/snobol/stuff Message #4518
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Community Square January 7, 1986 5:22 PM
Icon is almost done, the interpreter runs most Icon programs, just a few that don't seem to run for any reason I can determine. I've just downloaded the debugger from dl9 though, maybe it can tell me something, I've already been reduced to putting calls to printf and other routines…
setjmp.asm Message #4416
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software January 6, 1986 4:49 PM
The code for setjmp.asm does save the context in the buffer that you provide, you must provide the ADDRESS of the buffer. The code is: _setjmp: movea.l (sp)+,a1 get return address from top of stack and save it in a1 and increment stack pointer 4 bytes movea.l (sp),a0 get address…
setjmp.asm Message #4416
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software January 6, 1986 4:49 PM
The code for setjmp.asm does save the context in the buffer that you provide, you must provide the ADDRESS of the buffer. The code is: _setjmp: movea.l (sp)+,a1 get return address from top of stack and save it in a1 and increment stack pointer 4 bytes movea.l (sp),a0 get address…
#2292- HELP, ME.C Message #2335
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 19, 1985 4:35 PM
I have me.c and live in Southern Illinois. I don't have kermit though, just XMODEM with Checksum only. My bbs is up from 4:30pm to 8:00am M-F and 24Hrs on weekends. It will be up 24Hrs from December 20-Jan 2 for Christmas holiday. The number is 618-378-2133 300/1200 baud, hit…
#2292- HELP, ME.C Message #2335
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 19, 1985 4:35 PM
I have me.c and live in Southern Illinois. I don't have kermit though, just XMODEM with Checksum only. My bbs is up from 4:30pm to 8:00am M-F and 24Hrs on weekends. It will be up 24Hrs from December 20-Jan 2 for Christmas holiday. The number is 618-378-2133 300/1200 baud, hit…
system V printf Message #2104
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 2:35 PM
It works!! I got it to work on the amiga about 1:30 this afternoon. if you use %.*s that is. The only problem with this function will be in the %f format, the last digit may not round properlysince Lattice C lacks the fcvt() function and I had to use…
system V printf Message #2104
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 17, 1985 2:35 PM
It works!! I got it to work on the amiga about 1:30 this afternoon. if you use %.*s that is. The only problem with this function will be in the %f format, the last digit may not round properlysince Lattice C lacks the fcvt() function and I had to use…
#2024 #Upload policy Message #2103
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 17, 1985 2:29 PM
Oh well, guess we have no reprieve from CIS. At least we don't have to upload files in EBCDIC. * Reply: 2106
#2024 #Upload policy Message #2103
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 17, 1985 2:29 PM
Oh well, guess we have no reprieve from CIS. At least we don't have to upload files in EBCDIC. * Reply: 2106
#1984- Upload policy Message #2013
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:56 PM
Thanks, I'll try them.
#1984- Upload policy Message #2013
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 16, 1985 6:56 PM
Thanks, I'll try them.
#1972- #Icon Message #2012
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:53 PM
It will compile with a lot of work. That is what I have been doing ever since I got my amiga in october. There are a lot of differences between the Unix C compiler and Lattice C on the amiga, plus the fact that some of Icon is in assembler…
#1972- #Icon Message #2012
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:53 PM
It will compile with a lot of work. That is what I have been doing ever since I got my amiga in october. There are a lot of differences between the Unix C compiler and Lattice C on the amiga, plus the fact that some of Icon is in assembler…
#1972- #Icon Message #2012
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:53 PM
It will compile with a lot of work. That is what I have been doing ever since I got my amiga in october. There are a lot of differences between the Unix C compiler and Lattice C on the amiga, plus the fact that some of Icon is in assembler…
#1972- #Icon Message #2012
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 16, 1985 6:53 PM
It will compile with a lot of work. That is what I have been doing ever since I got my amiga in october. There are a lot of differences between the Unix C compiler and Lattice C on the amiga, plus the fact that some of Icon is in assembler…
#1936- #Icon Message #1944
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 15, 1985 8:16 PM
Yes Icon is the computer language developed by Drs. Griswold. It will be a full implementation with everything the unix version has except pipes and the m4 preprocessor which I have never used anyway. The source I am working from is Icon version 5.9 for the Sun workstation so it…
#1936- #Icon Message #1944
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software Developers December 15, 1985 8:16 PM
Yes Icon is the computer language developed by Drs. Griswold. It will be a full implementation with everything the unix version has except pipes and the m4 preprocessor which I have never used anyway. The source I am working from is Icon version 5.9 for the Sun workstation so it…
#Uploads Message #1903
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 15, 1985 1:55 PM
I have uploaded some more library routines, bsearch.asm that implements the Unix System V bsearch() call that does binary searches on sorted tables, (companion to qsort()) and trees.doc and trees.o that implement the tsearch(), tdelete(), and twalk() Unix calls that manange and traverse binary trees in C programs. I put…
#Uploads Message #1903
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Forum Business December 15, 1985 1:55 PM
I have uploaded some more library routines, bsearch.asm that implements the Unix System V bsearch() call that does binary searches on sorted tables, (companion to qsort()) and trees.doc and trees.o that implement the tsearch(), tdelete(), and twalk() Unix calls that manange and traverse binary trees in C programs. I put…
#1745 C's Message #1773
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software December 14, 1985 9:02 PM
The problem was CthaThe problem was that I was trying to access code generated by the Icon interpreter and 32 bit addresses may not have been aligned on word boundaries since Icon uses a lot of 1 byte opcodes. So there was C code to take care of that problem…
#1745 C's Message #1773
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software December 14, 1985 9:02 PM
The problem was CthaThe problem was that I was trying to access code generated by the Icon interpreter and 32 bit addresses may not have been aligned on word boundaries since Icon uses a lot of 1 byte opcodes. So there was C code to take care of that problem…
#1677 C's Message #1770
From: GARY SARFF Forum unknown · Software December 14, 1985 8:49 PM
The reason I was actually trying to do what I did was because it was an interpreter that was storing generated code in an array in memory. sometimes opcodes are one byte and can be followed by a 32 bit address therefore the address (treated as int) may or may…

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