Re: Shlomif's R2L version 0.2.0

[mulix]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:

>
> What I forgot to do in this release is have the property of the file size
> present. What size was decided to be the boundary between either active
> state? And what are those states?

r2llib/base_biditext_state.c

BIDITEXT_BASE_STATE
get_biditext_base_state(const char* file_name)
{
     int sz;

     if (!file_name)
          return BT_ERROR;

/* file_size returns the file size in bytes, or -1 on error */
     sz = file_size(file_name);
     if (sz <= 0)
          return BT_BASE_NEUTRAL;

     /* (sz % 2) == (sz & 0x0001) */

/* if size is odd, direction is LTR */
     if (sz & 0x0001)
          return BT_BASE_LTR;

/* if size is even, direction ir RTL */
     return BT_BASE_RTL;
}


> Can anybody write an updated SPEC of what the r2l implmentation has to do?

tzafrir's mails are probably your best guide, or their implementation in
r2llib.


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