[Coco] OS-9 Library generation

Wed May 13 22:35:11 EDT 2015

Gene, I'm in no hurry. What I have works until I have better :-)
BTW, I sent another private email to see if it gets stuck again. The only thing that changed on this end (as far as me) was that I switched to Firefox browser and AOL hates Firefox. They sponser their own version of Internet Explorer, and if you don't use it, it gives your browser hell. I didn't ever use it :-)
I sent the first email you posted with firefox. I sent the new one with IE like I always have before.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, May 13, 2015 10:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Library generation

On Wednesday 13 May 2015 11:56:44 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 May 2015
10:51:03 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> > Gene, In the c.prep sources, the line
length var is in the defs
> > right near the top of the main. I noticed last
night as I was
> > reading the changes in the docs (yours) that you had
increased the
> > "defines buffer". That may be the cause of the error I'm
seeing
> > after I fix the line length (needs more). Also, none of my code is
>
> ansi compliant and I noticed c.prep19b is geared more towards ansi
> > as it
mentions that quite a bit in the docs. My code's just plain
> > old K&R X MW C.
Would that make a difference?
>
> I wouldn't think it would matter if you are
using ansifront-13, its
> got that pretty well covered.
>
Time and honeydoo's
seems to have gotten away from me tonight.  But they 
are promising that we may
lose any glass rain gauges we leave out 
tonight, and temps in the low 50's
tomorrow, and that will keep me 
inside.  Good chance then.

> > Bill Pierce
> >
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> > to slow
down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gene Heskett
<gheskett at wdtv.com>
> > To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Wed, May 13,
2015 10:35 am
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Library generation
> >
> >
> > So now
I am wondering what
> > he did do.  I *think* I have a copy of his
> > version
on my web page, but have not
> > actually looked at the sources.
> >
> >
> > For
one thing, this is
> > where the "scope" of a variable is controlled.
> > The
correct use of that means
> > the you can have a var named "maxi" used
> > at
various places in the code that
> > reference their own local copy of
> > that
var, but not the same named var in some
> > other section of the code.
> > So
I'll have to brush up on that in the red C K&R
> > book before I make any
> >
huge changes.
> >
> > I also have a cp22.lzh on my page, but I
> > wasn't sure
if I was doing it
> > right, so I haven't promoted it as being correct.
> > I
recall using it
> > once or twice, but it has not been thru the wringer of
> >
building
> > something like rzsz-3.3.6 again that I can recall. I didn't
collect
> > that
> > and pack it til 2010, at which time my memory was at leat
16 years
> > rusty.
> > I put it up to serve as raw material for whoever might
want to
> > take it for a
> > walk and who knew enough about compilers to fix
any of my
> > goofups.
> >
> > In the
> > meantime, just to define whats what,
there are 3 c.prep19's on my
> > site.  The
> > unadorned one I know is mine,
and IIRC the a/b versions are
> > Willards.  Give the
> > plain c.prep19.lzh
version a shot at it and see if
> > you still get the same
> > problems with
line lengths.  That way I might be
> > able to figure where to
> > start.
> >
>
> Do you have a copy of cntx5?  Its a rather elementary syntax
> > checker,
>
>
> > making sure you closed all the (, [, ", ', etc pairs needed.
> >
> > That
also could,
> > in todays environment, stand to be improved even more I
> > am
sure, but it has
> > sure caught a boatload of typu's for me in the past.
> > I
wrote that originally on
> > the coco, then ported it and made quite a few
> >
extensions on the amiga, where I
> > was using SAS/C, then backported it to
> >
the coco again as version 5.
> >
> > > You're welcome to take
> >
> > a look at
my sources any time (I could use the
> >
> > > advice), but be prepared for
>
>
> > "The Spaghettiville Horror" LMAO.
> >
> > > Actually, it's not THAT bad,
but it gets the
> >
> > job done.
> >
> > I have a Dr's appointment early this
afternoon, but I'll see if I
> > can
> >
> > locate my srcs again & see if I can
make the command line buffer
> > bigger.
> >
> > Sometime this evening if I can
get this rusty old brain back into
> > it.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
>
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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