[Coco] Weird errors

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Sat Sep 16 21:03:12 EDT 2006


On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:55:06 -0600, Gene Heskett  
<gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Given the trouble this has caused, including for me, I vote for the above
> scenario. Those that need it can still get it, but via this method, all
> the legacy stuff runs again by default.  In re xmode, iirc there is an
> original, and a more all-encompassing version that covered the windows
> related stuff and expanded on the rs-232 controls.  Syntacticly  
> compatible
> with the original for those options the original covered, I'd vote for  
> the
> second edition of xmode to be the one restored.  I don't know if there  
> was
> an expanded tmode or not, never having encounterd it or a need for it  
> that
> I know about now.
     Yes, that is the version that Bruce Isted, I believe, did (with the  
SACIA/DACIA packages). It is the one
I used for years. And, no, TMODE was never changed to mathc, but some of  
the options (like the XTP Extended Type byte)
couldn't be used with an open path anyways, from what I recall.

-- 
L. Curtis Boyle



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