This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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HeHe….. took latin in High School ( where you pronounce your "V"'s as "W"'s )…. but never got into dominoes….. 🙁 ….. oh well. (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Do acolytes count? (we didn't have alter boys — congregationalists…..) 🙂 (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Yes, Anders Bjerin was the name I couldn't remember. Now, if I understand your other question correctly, you have a situation where you've got a c module that you want to call from another module — maybe a main, or whatever — and the module that you want to call…
Peter, PMFJI… your example is almost valid — what's missing is that you need to tell the compiler what kind of value your function returns, even if that is "void" ( == no value returned at all…) … also, you'll need to indicate what the compiler should be expecting as…
How to Internet?
Message #147666
Hi, I may find it necessary in the reasonably near future to get an internet connection — and was wondering if anyone could advise regarding what pd or shareware stuff was available here to do so. I'm running an A2000 w 030, about 6M memory, hard drive, 144 Hayes modem….…
Yes, and I got rxarp.lzh last nite & the phonebook in VLT now works. (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Thanks for the info. (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Thanks, I'll check it out… (haven't been keeping up with the arexx library, that'll teach me….:) (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
#curr. rexxarplib?
Message #40920
Hi, I'm trying to find a version 3.0 or greater of rexxarplibrary.library. (vlt doc's say its needed for arexx scripts…). I don't seem to see one in the libs here, and was wondering if anyone could upload one, or point me at a source for it…. Thanks, (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Nick, you can register at least one potential customer (me) for an upgrade to Copyist Companion… yes, DMusic's printing is much better than DMCS's was but it is not what I had hoped to see…. so maddening to see them get SO CLOSE… (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Don, That's interesting. I have been working around the same problem by simply deleting S:PPage.DFLT before running ProPage. What a pain. (AutoPilot'ed from) JcP
Thanks. I actually do have 4.1….and it seemed to have been working ok, although its not something I use frequently. Just got ProDraw & am now trying to put together some technical documentation for my work using both products. Not having a great time. Called tech support today & they…
#PPage4.0 crashes
Message #118786
I seem to be having a bit of a problem getting ProPage 4.0 to behave… when running it from intuition, I get 8000 000B error, which I can't even find in alerts.h. Other times it will come up with 8100 0005 which is corrupt memory list. I thought this latest…
Which c are you using? I had to hack a very little bit on the generated code & generated header files from GadToolsBox to get clean compiles under SAS c/6.2 & .3… but don't recall missing any header files. (auto-piloted from) JcP
I'm also eagerly awaiting arrival of my upgrade, and think a co would be a good idea…. (auto-piloted from) JcP
Thanks for the info! …. and I think I still have that issue of AC tech around somewhere (never throw anything away….).
You're right — I did come up with an approach which seems reasonable… and I agree with your comments in general. (and everyone else's, too; there were a lot of constructive comments on this thread.)
Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure I see exactly why using named constants in this kind of situation should be avoided — certainly, I would not want to set up something that should be dynamically allocated as a bunch of static arrays; but in this case (my actual application…
Doug, Ah yes! I'd seen something similar, but thanks for the reminder…. (auto-piloted from) JcP
Paul, Actually, there is a product that'll sort of do that…. it's called "copyist companion", and it will translate from DMCS proprietary format (NOT SMUS) into a "stream file" that can be digested by Dr. T's Copyist program. From there, Dr. T has a utility that will convert from Copyist…
Thanks. I don't know if that will be useful or not in this application, but it is a point well worth considering. (auto-piloted from) JcP
Well, I did figure out how to do what I needed to do — partly, "realized there was an easier way…": #define NF 3 char *fruits[NF] = {"Apples", "Oranges", "Bananas"}; #define NV 4 char *vegetables[NV] = {"Carrots", "Brocoli", "Turnips", "Rutabagas"}; #define NP 2 char **plants[NP] = { fruits, vegetables };…
Dale, the WHERE stuff I should have left out of the example. The way I use it, I #define something before including the header if and only if the module that's including it is the one where I want the space for the variable to be; then in the header…
#char (*tp[N])[] ?
Message #36224
Help! I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to declare something in c: I've got several arrays of char *, defined in different header files — they're all constants, but the strings are various lengths, and the arrays are of different sizes. I want to make an array of…
Wolf, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, those prices are way over what I could afford right now…. thanks anyway (auto-piloted from) JcP
Thanks — I'll check it out. (auto-piloted from) JcP
#DBMS for C needed
Message #35821
Hi, folks… Does anyone know of a dbms for the Amiga that I could use from within my C programs? I've looked at bBaseIII & Abase(?) but neither one seems to have any hooks for programmers, or even file-format documentation. Maybe the registered versions do? I'd like to be able…
Amiga Curses Tools?
Message #34147
Hi, all, I seem to remember seeing a message and/or file-upload posting about a version of "Curses" — Unix crt/forms tools, I think, for the Amiga…. Didn't pay much attention then as I had no need of such an animal. Now, however I seem to maybe be about to have…
michael, Actually, I don't really give a flying (*) about process numbers, either — just got curious when I noticed a change, and it made me worry that perhaps something in my startup-sequence was not freeing up it's process ( ie, maybe I was missing a >NULL or something…) but…
HP DJ500 setup
Message #93902
Hi, everyone… I'm having some difficulty getting MSS's Platinum-Works word-processor (aka son of scribble!) to talk politely to my new HP DeskJet 500. No matter how I tweak around with printer preferences and/or the .fmt file for my document, it seems to insist on sending 66 lines per page. Has…
Bill, Sounds reasonable, but I still wonder… Following some of the other comments that have been made here, I experimented yesterday, and found that when I start a new shell by clicking on the Workbench Icon, the first one is #4, then 5, 6, 7, 8, etc…. but if I…
michael, I'm not worried, just curious and/or mystified. I made no change, at first, in any of my user-startup stuff, and suddenly found my cli coming up as #4 instead of #1. After noticing that, I went hunting for stuff to kill in my user-startup, figuring that maybe there was…
Shraddhan, OK you're the third person other than me who has seen this…. so I guess it must be real. 🙂 Now I wonder why Commodore didn't mention that there was some sort of change…. curious. (auto-piloted from) JcP
Herbert, Thanks for the confirmation. Actually I'm just as puzzled by process numbers 2 & 3 — status shows what they're doing, but since I didn't change any of my user-startup stuff (actually, I did — took a couple of things out ) … so what's the deal ? I…
#2.1 eats processes?
Message #33328
Hi, gang… A few days ago (Wednesday, to be exact) I installed the AmigaDos 2.1 upgrade (I had been running 2.04 since last summer sometime). The install process seemed to go ok, but I'm now noticing that when I start a shell process, it comes up as process 4. This…
I hauled my system in to work & demo'ed the stuff in October. We're supposed to be getting X-windows sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath. Our end-users have little if any interest in the graphic stuff, so it is seen primarily as a development tool, and the company I'm…
Hi, John, I don't know if this REALLY qualifies as amiga programming, but I'm using mine to develop lens manufacturing calculations, for a rather large application package… the production version(s) of my stuff run on HP Unix machines, but I'm doing the development work on my amiga because my employer…
SAS/C 6.1 math
Message #31074
Doug, Any idea when the patch-fix to v 6.1 wrt floating-point code might be forthcoming? My program is s l o w otherwise…. thanks, (auto-piloted from) JcP
Dan, Yeah, one of the reasons I want to use this new version is to take advantage of those new features. Actually I managed to get my windows etc built ok, just had to keep saving the project every couple of minutes. I'm currently trying to figure out how reference…
GadToolsBox !?#?!
Message #30515
Has anyone else experienced problems with the new (1.4a) version of GadToolsBox?? I downloaded it a few days ago, and it seems to be behaving quite unreliably… the contents of string gadgets copy themselves to other gadgets, or a gadget will loose it's default string or integer, and then the…
Doug, That sounds reasonable… I've been using FullSymbol/Flush debugging option — but was also using that before, so I couldn't understand why things would suddenly get bigger, but if in fact there's debug info generated by #including stdio & etc, then it makes sense. (auto-piloted from) JcP
Brian, Go into your printer preferences & set "image" to NEGETIVE. That will print black as white & vice versa….. may help some. I've been curious about Maple. If I might ask, what kinds of functions are you plotting & how do you like it? (auto-piloted from) JcP
Doug, Well, I did contact tech support, & they thought maybe one particular object module might be causing the problem, so I started breaking my library in halves, in hopes of isolating one module eventually. The original library was a little over 300k in size. When I got the parts…
Doug, Thanks for the reply. It seems like I may have found my problem, or at least part of it — I changed the data & code options to FAR & FAR & it started working, sort of. Actually the functions were working ok, just seems like the cross-reference list…
I'm writing software to analyze eyeglass prescriptions prior to fabrication. Lots of geometrical optics, plus some occasionally challenging math to model the various aspheric and/or progressive-power lens designs. … Whapped from Jeff P.
Bob, Hmmm — that was a typo in my message. The parameters in the program are ok. What's weird about this situation is that there's another routine, with the same parameters, called the same way, about 5 lines above, that works just fine. When I run it thru the debugger,…
#prototype question
Message #29785
I've got a medium-sized c project — several .c and .h files — and have noticed something very puzzling while debugging: it seems like the compiler is forgetting some of my function prototypes! Example: foo.h: double find_z( SURFACE *s, PAIR p ); /* "SURFACE" is a typedef'ed struct; "PAIR" is…
Thanks for the suggestions….. but I must admit (with an embarrassed grin) that I figured out my problem a few hours after posting my help message… Seems I'd somehow clobbered amiga.lib, probably while setting up an smakefile for some stuff that I'd been compiling from out of the CLI prior…
SAS/C 6.0 Link Vs. Libs
Message #29388
Hello, folks… I am installing the v.6.0 SAS/C — actually, upgrading from 5.10 — and am having problems linking. I get undefined external references to things like GT_ReplyIMsg, SetMenuStrip, OpenLibrary, PrintIText, etc. etc… which I would like to think should be found in Amiga.lib. I'm running 2.0, and am using…
Stephen: Well, the version I have seems to be 1.3, also, but I'm definately not getting Intuitext stuff. Bevel-boxes, yes, and the render function also, but no titles anywhere. What kind of screen (public vs. custom vs. workbench) are you using? … a message Whap!'ed from scenic Boring, Oregon by…
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