[Coco] Notest on Portal-9 and MESS

[Robert Gault]

The new CCASM works nicely with the EDTASM .logic. operators. I think I 
found one bug connected with the CCASM union. Check a private message.

Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 07:01 PM 11/12/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> Roger,
>>
>> There has been a change in MESS, although the docs don't show it, and 
>> with the latest versions the command option -skip_disclaimer no longer 
>> is available. That may require a change in the Portal9.ini if the 
>> above option is stock, as MESS will not start from Portal-9 if a 
>> command line option is not accepted.
>>
>> Also, I've noted that CCASM supports most of the EDTASM syntax but not 
>> the logical operators .AND. .NOT. .OR. .XOR. .DIV. .MOD. .EQU. and .NEQ.
>> That is not very important, but users of EDTASM should not expect 
>> complete compatibility.
> 
> 
> Robert,
> 
> I just e-mailed you a test version of CCASM (3.06) that attempts to add 
> these operations back for EDTASM compatibility.  However, you'll see 
> that in order to keep an expression from being seen as 
> "structure.union.field" since those are possible, you have to enclose 
> any leading symbols in parenthesis for EDTASM compatibility:
> 
> (apple).or.3  works
> 
> but
> 
> apple.or.3  will result in an error because the expression appears to be 
> a structure/field
> 
> More details are in your e-mail.  Please give it a try and let me know 
> what you think before I release this update.
> 
>