This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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This is probably caused by a backup file getting DELETE PROTECTED, so that the old backup cannot be deleted. Check in the :T or T: directory, and look for something like txed.backup with the delete protect bit set. Charlie
#17791-
#ARP 1.3 and Amy 3000
Message #17813
I'd be suprised if there is any hardware problem running the ARP commands; a lot of people have used the ARP commands under V1.3 of ADOS with various CPU's and configurations. Most likely if there is a hardware problem either your machine is broken, or the OS (V1.3) is broken.…
#17739-
#ARP for Lattice C 5.05
Message #17812
With the V1.3 ARP release, we're letting individual compiler vendors provide most of the support for using arp.library; we've provided the basic support files but not much compiler specific stuff. We decided not to include the "c.o" replacement files for Lattice since Lattice has added a number of options to…
#17802-
ARP and 2.0
Message #17811
We're waiting to see how other people respond to the V2.0 commands, and to see how good a job Commodore does in cleaning up the V2.0 release, before we do anything with ARP for ADOS V2.0. In general, the ARP V1.3 commands are intended to be downwardly compatible with ADOS…
The ARP commands do a fine job of being compatible, but not perfect. Sorry for any inconveniences to your support people. As will probably become apparent as ADOS V2.0 becomes more widely used, *any* reimplementation of an existing system introduces gaps in compatability, especially when the reimplementation attempts to add…
#95520-
123/DBase
Message #95792
A much more effective way to lobby the major software houses is to buy software. The major publishers have pretty exact figures available on system sales and on software sold by category for systems. That is the figure they use in deciding what platforms to develop for, along with projections…
Yea, plus undo/redo. Beginning to sound like another programmers editor. Maybe James's been hanging out with the techies too long C-:.
There's also the issue of documentation, and supposed scripts which use Edit, etc. Once anything is released, it's a lot easier to just keep it there than to toss it, at least in C=land. So probably what would happen, even if they did pick up TxEd or something like that…
I've often drooled at the possibility of making a $0.50 royalty on WB disks, for saving disk space. But Commodore's bottom line is cost of development, and time to market … I don't think they're too concerned about a few million disks here and there. Too bad, it's what I…
The single quotes are for AREXX – otherwise AREXX will strip the double quotes in it's parsing. By enclosing the entire line in single quotes you tell AREXX to leave what's inside the single quotes alone. …cheath
I can't comment on where Commodore's user interface decisions are being made, being both too close and too far away from the situation as an off-site consultant working on the user-interface. But I can assure you the decisions about the file requester are not being made by "one programmer who…
Where did you read between my lines to get those gems, John? Where did I say "Apple coercion is bad"? I think Apple's done a fine job establishing guidelines and creating marketplace expectations about the user interface. What I said was that the monologue by Bayless wasn't the answer for…
Har! We talked briefly with Commodore about putting a TxEd derivative on WB. But at this point I think I agree with Perry K on this one, the best thing Commodore can do with editors is just not to do anything at all for a while C-:. Though I'd certainly…
Just tried that here, with V2.2. without any problem. Here is the line I used for test, inside the macro: 'CHange 2 "abc" "def"'
#92488-
Those DevCon Techies!
Message #92551
My guess is letters will be most effective if they're sent a couple weeks after V1.4 ships. Everybody's too busy to spend much time considering blue-sky stuff … so your letter now would likely get a quick reading if any. After V1.4 ships, CATS will have much more time to…
That's what I like about you, John; you'll argue with anything. At least we've got one thing in common C-:. Of course I meant "the last Ameri-Devcon", the San Francisco '89 Devcon, referring to "the next devcon". I was replying to your message about how at one devcon everyone screamed…
#91895-
#User Beta-testers Please
Message #92280
But John, where were you at the next DEVCON when everyone, when asked about what Commodore should be doing, cheered for "Device independent graphics"? RTG has been a favorite among the cliques within cliques for a long, long time but Commodore hasn't bowed before the hackers here. Perhaps there's more…
Do you have figures to indicate that Croftward is pulling a lot of money out of Transami, rather than backing out to minimize losses? I don't know anything about the finances, but do know my personal experiences with Croftward, which would incline me to believe they would be above average…
I doubt Croftward's going home with much. If they were, they'd still be getting Transactor out, on schedule. As business concerns go, my experiences with Croftward have been above average on the ethical scale.
Modem death … no CIS until fixed exti
Paul – if you type CTRL-\ (Control-Backslash), after getting into the interactive mode with any of the batch programs built into AShell, you'll get back to the normal prompt. These commands include IF,ELSE, SKIP, and QUIT.
Nah, I save the head-byting for email. Seriously, anything I say in public conference about ASL has to be basicly oriented at avoiding controversy and not making any committments beyond what Commodore's announced. I'll be glad to listen and reply privately at greater depth. …cheath
( Er, that's .2%, not 2%. Somebody ate my dot… )
If there were an "ASSIGN SYS: someplace SYSTEM" sort of thing, it would not save you any memory – the same things need to be done internally by DEFDISK, it's just a typing shorthand. I'm a dinosaur on memory usage myself, cringe at nearly any wasted bytes. But at 50…
I'm taking input from anybody who wants to give it on the file requester, but the design will not be a committee design. Among the goals of the asl library is to keep the code small enough that developers will want to use it; hence spiffies which require large code…
Chas is my non-corporate entity, reserved for stupid pet tricks and the like. Assigns use a little memory, but only 50 bytes or so apiece so shouldn't be something you'd need to keep track of unless you're really running close to the edge. …cheath
XMODEM Upload?
Message #12279
Is there a problem with XMODEM uploads? I've been trying up upload a file for 3 days into AmigaTech, keep getting timeouts. I'm using Access V1.42, which has been OK before; I have a new SUPRA 2400 modem. I've been able to get uploads done through this phone connection on…
John, as far as I know the earlier BM bindings should work with V1.3 of ARP, except for the new function calls in V1.3 (there are only four new functions). Those should be pretty easy to implement for anyone who's familiar with the way the other bindings are done under…
You can initialize the fr_LeftEdge/fr_TopEdge fields, which used to be "fr_reserved2" as a longword field. If you leave that field zeroed, you get the default position, but if you store a value that value will be used (offset by one pixel, so you can get 0,0 with 1,0). We won't…
#12239-
#Making txed resdent
Message #12243
Ah, that makes some sense. You might try doing a "hd:c/loadlib hd:libs/ arp.library" and multi-assign instead of DefDisk, those should wind up pretty similar in performance when you're transferring from the boot floppy to HD. Or you might just leave it alone and be happy C-: …cheath
#65515-
Another ARP stuff
Message #65867
Luciano – CreateStdIO is a good candidate for a function in some library, as are many others … we've had to draw the line somewhere on what functions got added to arp.library. Generally the functions added are needed somewhere in the CLI commands or were needed internal to some other…
#64564-
#Still on ARP!
Message #65429
Marco – I'm not sure what your problem is here, but suspect it has something to do with the linking procedure; the resource tracking should work through SyncRun calls, and I know it works through ASyncRun since I've used that frequently. You might try switching to linking with the Lattice…
#64769-
AShell and Conman
Message #65427
Curious. It seems that unbuffered input still works, but any output after the close gadget gets tossed by CONMAN on the closed output stream. Commands do seem to load and execute, but output is zapped; probably unbuffered input generates EOF as well. Anyhow, at this point the answer is basicly…
Kevin – sorry, ASH doesn't currently recognize CONMAN's close gadget handling … that's something I'd like to see as well, so I'll bug Scott to work on it before the next ASH release. Currently ASH expects to see the input filehandle set the same way the "ENDCLI" program sets it,…
#ARP Docs
Message #65422
Tony – the main change in the V1.3.2 WorkBench release is the addition of some keywords to the MOUNT command which apply if you have a multi-serial port card. Also there are a few minor additions in WBV1.3.2 such as the improvements to the EVAL command to allow more complex…
#Another ARP stuff
Message #65419
Luciano – apologies for our delays getting out the V1.3 ARP programmers support materials. There's a lot of work to get this stuff together, and I've been tied up with a TxEd Plus release and work for Commodore recently so haven't been able to finish it up. I suspect we…
#11751-
#Blitzdisk Kudos
Message #11772
Even with an MMU, the cache buffers are likely to be vunerable to random pointers depending on the implementation of the filesystem. The buffers need to be in memory which is accessible to various tasks. Buffers could be tagged READ_ONLY, etc, but at least under any likely AmigaDOS MMU schemes…
#11718-
#Blitzdisk Kudos
Message #11731
Daniel – there are basicly two ways in which using BlitzDisk increases your risk of getting damaged files on a disk. First is when used with programs which access the disk in non-standard ways, such as some HD backup programs. BlitzDisk is designed to work and has been tested with…
Hey, congrats Perry. I kinda like the name C-: (The other)Charlie
'Sat an offer, or an inquiry C-:. Seriously, probably the next product I release for the Amiga will be published elsewhere, unless it's a game. If anyone would like to submit a serious proposal offering to publish a BlitzDisk-only package, I'll be glad to listen to ideas; for now, supporting…
#11115-
#Disk Cache
Message #11119
Yup – I'm not pushing sour grapes, just looking for a way that I can earn enough so I can do more extensive development work on the Amiga. If I were to miss the mark with a BlitzDisk-only package, that would probably be the last thing I'd be able to…
OK, you are right – the MEMF_PUBLIC bit is the one which could be used for VMEM support. This is something near and dear, since I've considered offering a virtual memory manager as a product until Commodore gets it built into the system. My analysis was that it is something…
But practically all software uses MEMF_PUBLIC already, which means the virtual memory mapper would not be winning much. Also I imagine there are a sufficient number of interrupt things which do not use MEMF_PUBLIC as to make it practially unimplementable, without throwing out a lot of code, which won't be…
I don't think MEMF_PUBLIC fits the bill; interrupts don't have any restriction on accessing memory which is MEMF_PUBLIC. It could be declared that anything which is not MEMF_PUBLIC could be made virtual … but that would rule out most memory allocations, since most applications use "MEMF_PUBLIC" by default; and it…
#10963-
Disk Cache
Message #10985
If I thought I could earn enough money selling a BlitzDisk-only package, without losing an equivalent ammount in TxEd Plus package sales, I would do it. However, after my experience with losing money on the FastFonts package, I'm not anxious to volunteer myself into a similar position again. If you…
That'd be fine if you could force everything that is and is accessed by interrupt code … forcing it anywhere. Problem is there is no way to do that, without building something into the memory allocator, as best as I can see. There's no way to force existing code to…
#60657-
#WB 1.4 News
Message #60661
The problem comes if memory which has been swapped out is accessed during interrupt processing, and some other trap/supervisor functions. In these states, you could not access the disk driver. Thus there would need to be some memory blocks which are never swapped out, which could be flagged with the…
#60497-
WB 1.4 News
Message #60573
Adding demand paging to AmigaDOS won't be too easy – it looks to me like there needs to be a new memory request flag "MEMF_VIRTUAL" added to memory allocations to make this a comparatively doable task. With the present setup, I don't think it is possible to do address trapping…
Um, nope, no general purpose toolbox in ASL. File and font requesters are definite. Color requester is pending but may go elsewhere. ASL will use standard looking interface either taking advantage of ROM functions, or discreetly, but the callouts if there are any will probably not be in ASL.
ASL.library is decidedly not a "mixed bag" of functions … though a lot of folks have made suggestions about things that would turn it into a mixed bag, at present it is defined as file requester, font requester, and list requester … with nothing else in there. The code I…
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