#Help-Modula2-Disk-error
19-Mar-87 19:10:27
Sb: #59235-#Help-Modula2-Disk-error
Fm: bob hawkins 70345,425
To: Steve Faiwiszewski 74106,425
Actually I did finally get so disgusted that I wrote my own error lister (for
V2.20). The problem is, text I/O in TDI M2 is incredibly slow. If an error
occurred in line 100 of the source, it takes a l-o-n-g time to get it on the
screen. Unless I'm missing something, TDI doesn't give you any way to do text
input from disk except on a character-by-character basis, which (as we all
know) is not AmigaDOS's strength. I thought about reading in blocks of text and
doing my own buffering, but it seemed so pointlessly idiotic to have to do that
when the DOS would do it for me if the language supported it, that I haven't
got the heart for it.
Nonetheless, if anyone shows any interest, I'll upload the M2 source and
executable.