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    29-Jul-86 10:18:28
Sb: #28276-IDCMP
Fm: GARY SARFF 70167,2216
To: Scott Ballantyne 70066,603

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Thanks. I will get busy when I get it. I'm sorry about the tape I sent being so hard to use. Would some other format have been better? I remember you saying something one time about it being 80 byte fixed records or something? I could make a new one for you and try again. We've got lots of 9track tapes here. We get software and OS updates on them and after they are loaded on the hard disk I don't need the tapes anymore, I've got about 3 racks of them now. As for Manx, apparently they aren't doing any folding when they compile the code. Folding lets the compiler compute expressions whose values are either constants or variables whose values can be determined at compile time so that the expression isn't evaluated at run time. That is suprising since Manx is supposed to be so good. Apparently Lattice IS attempting to do folding, if only they would get the correct answer when they do it!