Threads: I am sorry for not having used the subject line and shall be more
coherent in its use.
Attachments: Ok, I will send any attachments to you as attachments as well as
to the list via the byzantine copy and paste (a hangover from DOS?)
Linux: I am still trying to figure out if the system
**"M. Uli Kusterer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
**Folks,
**gcc bytecode is nice for compilers, but I doubt it's appropriate for
**OpenCard. You wouldn't want to have to compile your stack every time you
**change a script.
personally i would not mind having to compile scripts or stacks if that
In a message dated 11/2/99 9:54:34 PM, derobert wrote:
We export to XML and... write a XML viewer for them? Why not just write the
binary viewer -- saves a ton of overhead, the writing of yet another
parser, and the writing of an exporter.
Hark the spirit of OpenSource! If people want an
There are other advantages to this as well in terms
of future expansion. Because we'd be using the gcc
bytecodes our stacks could be natively compiled on
that platform with no interpreter needed. The "do"
command is a bit tricky, but not unsolvable.
I imagine we'd have to make it do a callback
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:13 PM -0800 on 11/2/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
eric-engle: The reason i used attachments is because
our school system is installing linux - which made it
crash prone. After losing a couple long letters ...
Alain: This is the first negative feedback concerning
Linux
Eric: Because some people will have different levels
of commitment and interest. Also metaCard might not
want to distribute its engine to everyone? (Scott?).
We can work out ways for this to be interesting to
metaCard as a charitable deduction, and I am happy to
do the research needed on that.
Uli : I actually once made an XCMD collection of this
name (PowerCard), but I never released them.
Alain: Sounds .. interesting!
Alain: Do you still have them? What do they do? ...
Alain,
it was just a few Xes; xPrompt, ShowBalloon and one to get a stack's
pathname (obsolete from the
Folks,
gcc bytecode is nice for compilers, but I doubt it's appropriate for
OpenCard. You wouldn't want to have to compile your stack every time you
change a script.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
