Please see below ... Joe. ... [Joe] Very funny! BTW, the blank posting earlier was the result of me using Arachne - sometimes the editor seems to misbehave...
Hi Ray, et. al. The Caldera DR-Webspyder browser underwent major changes during its brief development life. Those #defines we see would no doubt relate to...
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:09:29 -0000, Joe da Silva wrote: Hi Joe, ... Agreed, but the non-#else section processed only the XTVERSION posibility, which is now...
Please see below ... Joe. ... [Joe] Hmmm ... it's academic in this particular case, but there are two things wrong with the above statement. Firstly, inverting...
Hi Joe, I'm not really following you on this #else thing, but as you said, it's accademic at this point -- the code compiles OK; if we need those other...
Hi Ray, et. al. The "#else point" is that you can't change #ifdef xxx block A #else block B #endif into #ifdef xxx block B #endif which was effectively what...
Well, I haven't mentioned these monsters of late, so I thought a little update was in order ... Basically, I've just been studying the code, to understand it ...
... Yes, now I see what you mean. Come to think of it, policy regarding previous edits to the code is something we should discuss. Here's where I'm at right...
... Joe, Did you see that remark on Freelist about Greg M. claiming your change to core trashed his system? Sounds far fetched to me. Anyway, I still don't...
... If some source code is well formatted, comments can be easily distinguished even with syntax highlighting turned off. ... Right. ... I mostly agree. Don't...
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Just wanted to pass along Glenn's thoughts on the matter, in case anyone here isn't subscribed to the general discussion Arachne lists: "Good day all, As some...
Hi Ray, et. al. As you should by now be aware, I take a conservative view to code changes. Remember me saying "don't make changes just for the sake of them"?...
Hi Ray, Actually it was Kevin (I've just looked at the freelists archives). His system is not optimized and he uses Epppd, so he doesn't have much excess...
Hi all, New in the group file area ... BaseCode : nokey.mak (the makefile, may be useful for compiler porting) BaseCode : nokeyexe.bat (example semi-automated...
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:44:40 -0000, Joe da Silva wrote: ... I think I made it sound worse that it was; there are only two or three files that MP worked on...
Glenn, You raise too many points to answer on the message board to I'll post ... I define trivial, in this context as "containing no useful information" Bernie...
Please see below ... Joe. ... [Joe] Hmmm ... I have already given you a valid reason why those "trivial" ID's can be quite useful. This reason is even _more_...
Hi Ray, I told you at the outset not to get discouraged by this contentious task, didn't I? ;-) BTW, my comments on this subject are in my other post ... ...
Hmmm ... I thought when I tried BC 3.0 initially to build Core, the end result used up more memory than with BC 3.1, however now I can't replicate this result....
... The proper location for this tool is a trashcan. <G> Michal...
Michal H. Tyc
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Jan 7, 2004 7:05 pm
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Hi Joe, ... Point taken. But we might be arguing about different things. When a change is made and dated, and the old code is STILL THERE, commented out, ...
... Yeah, its OK Joe, I just wish I'd had the input earlier, it would have saved some backing up. OTOH, we almost have a quorum of developers now and who can...
Joe, About the beeps : yes. BTW, my beep was something like "echo ^G", but with a real Ctrl-G character (in Borland editors, probably borrowed from WordStar, I...
Hi Ray, "Yes" means I got beeps (using echo ^G in Arachne.Bat, I did not know about an internal 4dos beep command) when my PC did not have more than [nnn] KB...
Ray, Of course! <g> They're in the "Joe" directory of this group's file area. Once you've signed in, you should be able to download them after clicking the...
Hi all, I have been doing some experimentation with uploading of files to this group's file area under DOS. As you will be aware, Arachne does not support HTML...
... Hmmm, that means that whatever the 4dos+Arachne problem is, it *isn't* universal, although it seems to be endemic. I think if Glenn and I keep on it,...
Hi all, Just to let you know, I have added a bunch of links to this group's "Links" collection, all related to Arachne, with a focus on development stuff. Just...