We could use perl... you can download the cygnus compiler for free for
Windows... which has a perl interpreter as well as a bash shell.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin P. Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Parallel Printers
> Josh Wilmes wrote:
> >
> > > I think the only feature I used tools86 for was to preprocess
> > > the bios file and separate lines after like...
> > >
> > > #define JMPL(label) db 0xe9!!!dw (label-(*+2)) ; jmp near label
> > >
> > > ...after gcc -E preprocessed macros. I could be forgetting
> > > something else. But if now, this would only take a small
> > > C program to do, and could replace using tools86.
> > >
> > > When you see '!!!', generate a newline.
> > >
> >
> > You mean something like "perl -pe 's/!!!/\n/g' file"?
>
> Yeah, something like that. Sed, perl, or other stream
> editor will do as well as C. I suggested C 'cause
> I'm always in lowest common denominator mode (Windows).
>
> -Kevin
>
>
