Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 05:20:46PM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ask him to use infozip/pkzip -- I know that is easy for Winloose users. Our unzip has a command line option to fix the text line termination. The zip he produces can be extracted fine. That's not the question. Then what's the question? Why can't people use the .zip file and not ask Sadler to produce a .tar.gz? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21:09AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ask him to use infozip/pkzip -- I know that is easy for Winloose users. Our unzip has a command line option to fix the text line termination. -- -- David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21 -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user [ ... ] If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Most of the distros I've seen (Linux as well as *BSD) have the DOS ports of these tools on their first CD, next to other archivers / partitioners / bootselectors / X-Servers / etc. Given the need (read: if I'm not late) I could provide - binaries of tar and gzip for DOS and i386+ - a .BAT / .CMD file to shove dir %1 into %1.tar.gz but it will be untested or wil take a few days since I'm 100% MS free here. :) virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s get gpg key [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:21:09AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and ... If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ask him to use infozip/pkzip -- I know that is easy for Winloose users. Our unzip has a command line option to fix the text line termination. The zip he produces can be extracted fine. That's not the question. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
Peter Jeremy wrote: For anyone who writes their own FORTH in the loader scripts: ficl 2.05 (imported on 28th April by dcs) changes `base' from an lvalue to an rvalue. This will break any code that currently uses base. In particular, code to temporarily change the base will corrupt low memory. For example: base @ expression hex . base ! will now access a word at address 10 and store it at address 16. I have no idea why this change was made - it breaks FORTH compatibility. I can't find anything in ficl.sourceforge.net (except that someone has helpfully stripped all the CR's off ficl205.tar before it was gzip'd - which upsets tar quite a bit). Ugh! I wasn't aware of this, and I can guarantee this will be fixed. -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: **HEADS-UP** ficl changes change `base' type
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: I have no idea why this change was made - it breaks FORTH compatibility. I can't find anything in ficl.sourceforge.net (except that someone has helpfully stripped all the CR's off ficl205.tar before it was gzip'd - which upsets tar quite a bit). John Sadler is not a Unix user, and has no experience with Unix, and doesn't have one, as a matter of fact. All that's there on sourceforge was produced using tools under Windows, and he is making an effort to make things available for us poor Unix users, but he can't test them, and he doesn't even know exactly what we want. If you know exactly how to produce a .tar.gz under Windows that is suitable for our use, I'm sure he would appreciate the help. Ugh! I wasn't aware of this, and I can guarantee this will be fixed. Done. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caffeine is proof that God hates mornings too To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
