Chris - maybe you shouldn't - what about large files? For files with sizes>2^32, you'll want to represent the size as a pair of integers the way the "bigfiles" module does. Maybe you should keep it floating point and include a warning about the behavior to allow for this possibility.
Regards, Devon On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think I have found out what is happening. If I run the previous > example > > manually but use <.sz in place of sz in the createjmf_jmf_ line, then the > > map_jmf_ line works correctly. > > > > Maybe sz as originally assigned (i.e 7!;5 <'a') is represented as a > > floating point number and <.sz is represented as an integer; the one > > causes createjmf_jmf_ to generate a bad header while the other > > works. > > > > I am not knowledgeable enough to confirm this from the code in the 'jmf' > > script > > but it is just a suggestion. > > This is correct - createjmf requires an integer argument. I'll fix it to > coerce a float to integer. Thanks for pointing this out. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
