Jan: Thanks to a nice Modula penpal from Italy (Julian Miglio), I've got a way to debugging FST programs at source level. Up to now, it is possible to follow...
... CONST PitFreq = 1193181; pitFreq := 1193181; will do the trick. Constants of type LONGINT and LONGCARD may only be specified in decimal. That's what the...
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Oct 1, 2003 7:40 pm
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... Downloaded it... ... Perhaps you should eb a little less honest in the file descriptions. If TD is still commercial software, Borland might object and then...
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Oct 1, 2003 10:38 pm
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... Not a problem, although is the 16 bit one, part of the now public domain Turbo 16bit languages. May be I should have stated so. (I'm against all kind of...
Well done! ... there was ... For sure we'll have... I've deeply fallen into the "Modulitis", a well known illness that does affect computerists from time to...
In the WIPS sources there are a lot of lines that read if true then begin In my opinion, this will always execute, unless Pascal has some kind of general...
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Oct 2, 2003 11:06 pm
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Maybe to put some hook to insert debugging information... BTW, I got the Turbo Debug 5.5 From Borland. Now is unsupported freeware. I've to check if it works...
... Well, until now I do the following when a bug occurs: - I look at the screen and printer - based on that and my ASM experience I get an indication what...
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Oct 3, 2003 4:28 pm
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In the dutch wisclub list there was a question from an assembly guru who once made program in C. It had worked without error for years but now it stopped...
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Oct 3, 2003 8:45 pm
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... open ... Hello all and thanks for the welcome - Well, there's not so much to tell about me. Here's the bit: My name is Christoph, I programmed in Modula-2...
... single ... Haven't you tried the trick with TD?. The stepping works very well... I don't lose the hope of being able to add the display of variable...
Hallo Christoph, ... As you will know, FST has stopped it's development. I have had some contacts with Roger Carvalho after he decided to do so. My last...
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Oct 3, 2003 11:27 pm
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... found ... As I don't use Dos/Windows any more I have stopped using the compiler. But some time ago I made a package out of FST and Mide3de2 (an IDE for ...
... FALSE. ... ;o) In some spanish pages I am referred to as 'professor Verhoeven'. For obscure reasons.... ... How 'good' is GNU Modula-2? Is it still a...
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Oct 4, 2003 7:16 pm
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When I compile this source:
MODULE test; FROM InOut IMPORT Write, WriteLn; BEGIN Write (14C); WriteLn; END test. with FST Modula-2 I get an...
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Oct 4, 2003 10:35 pm
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... IDE for ... Well, maybe it's worth a look. The IDE was made by a guy from Spain and is really usable. But Windows has got big problems with a lot of ...
Op Sunday 05 October 2003 00:31 schreef jan verhoeven:
> The output is:
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> <ESC>[2J
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> which is the ANSI code for a clear screen (as far as I...
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Oct 5, 2003 6:43 pm
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... I must admit that I run without Windows here. The Pentium or better machines all run Linux and the 386's run DR-DOS. [GNU Modula-2] ... That has some...
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Oct 5, 2003 8:30 pm
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... Close to. In Spanish Universities, Modula-2 is the language to learn to program. Later people can learn also C and Java... ... I have to run XP at the...
After some (many) wild hours doing wild things with the Wisp source and the FST compiler, I've to admit that I give up this wild way. (I've learned a lot in...
... [snip] ... some ... I think being able to compile the set of ISO libraries doesn't make a compiler ISO compliant - one would have to hack the compiler...
... [snip] ... office ... use ... Maybe Vim (www.vim.org) is worth a try? I know it's a bit hard to learn at the beginning, but it only needs a bit of reading...
... I mainly use 'jed' for editing. It does highlighting for several purposes. ... I'm running Slack 8 on this machine. For nearly two years already now. -- ...
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Oct 6, 2003 8:09 pm
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... In most cases, it is faster to completely rewrite the source.... ... The problem is: we can port the procedures, but this does not necessarily port the...
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... purposes. Just downloaded and compiled it as I didn't know jed - will play with it tomorrow. ... Yes, I don't see any reason for leaving Slack again -...
... I'm starting to think so... ... necessarily ... Right. ... treat. So ... What about GNU Modula-2? I havn't tried it yet, but there is some activity... ...
Our fourth member has succeded in interfacing Turbo Debug (16bit) to the FST compiler, not only the program flow but also the contents of variables. Maybe...
Hi friends, yes, I will prepare a special document about FST and TD with some examples. greetings, Julian...
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Oct 7, 2003 3:11 pm
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OK, Finally I got Emit and Soup working under DOS. Unix is a less messy operating system than DOS. The fact that DOS requires CR/LF pairs combined with FST's...