Kevin maybe you could put this source in with Bochs and Plex86 and replace
tools86?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Wilmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Parallel Printers
>
> This is trivial enough that we can just do it in C.. If we need to do
> something fancier at a later date, perl would be fine.
>
> Here's a quick hack in C: (using C makes me appreciate perl ;)
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> /* filter.c
> * Go through a file and replace all occurrances of "!!!" with "\n".
> * Equivalent to "perl -pe 's/!!!/\n/g'"
> */
>
> #define BLOCKSIZE 2048
>
> int main (int argc, char* argv[]) {
> char* filename;
> FILE* fp;
> char buf[BLOCKSIZE+1];
> char* lastwritten, *nextmatch, *end;
> int rc, sawbangs=0;
>
> if (argc == 2) {
> fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
> if (fp == NULL) {
> perror("fopen");
> exit(1);
> }
> } else {
> fp = stdin;
> }
>
> while (! feof(fp)) {
> rc = fread(&buf, sizeof(char), BLOCKSIZE, fp);
> if (rc < 0) {
> perror("fread");
> exit(1);
> }
>
> if (rc > 0)
> buf[rc] = '\0';
> else
> buf[0] = '\0';
> break;
> }
>
> lastwritten=buf;
>
> /* special case- if we saw !'s at the end last time, handle that
*/
> if (sawbangs == 1 && (*buf == '!') && (*(buf+1) == '!')) {
> printf("\n"); lastwritten+=2;
> }
>
> if (sawbangs == 2 && (*buf == '!')) {
> printf("\n"); lastwritten+=1;
> }
>
> /* go through the buffer replacing !!!'s with \n's and writing it
out
> as we go. */
> while (nextmatch = strstr(lastwritten, "!!!")) {
> *nextmatch = '\0';
>
> printf("%s\n", lastwritten);
> lastwritten = nextmatch+3;
> }
>
> /* special case- if the last one or two characters of the buffer
are
> "!", we make a note of this for next time. */
> end = buf + strlen(buf) - 1;
> if (end < buf) end = buf;
>
> sawbangs=0;
> if (*end == '!') { sawbangs=1; *end = '\0'; }
> if (sawbangs && (*(end-1) == '!')) { sawbangs++; *(end-1) =
'\0'; }
>
> /* write out anything which is left */
> printf("%s", lastwritten);
> }
> }
>
>
>
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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