Do not mis-understand me, I'm really happy our small, loose community found (yet another) place to meet online... But... so far i joined: - S4ML (deceased) -...
... S4ML's server died, taking the mail list with it. The current invitations are to those whose addresses Mike Radow recorded. Many of these addresses are no...
... Yes, let's get the old gang plus any new ones together here. My machine is not yet in shape to do this and won't for a couple of weeks (I have to install a...
Add my thanks for starting this group. While I haven't used much S*bol in the last few years, it has been a staple of my toolkit for over 20 years and I would...
Yes, and a hearty "thanks" from this quarter as well. I'm currently developing a complex text-based system for a financial firm. It's taking them into...
... There's a link on Phil's "Snobol4 Resources" page, link in "Links" section of the "SPITBOL Yahoo! Group". I hope everybody finds his/her way here... ... I...
Rafal M. Sulejman
rafal@...
Oct 30, 2006 11:55 am
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Greetings to everyone! I have archived messages from the S4 list from 12/98 to 6/06 and would also be happy to send them to anyone who can post them somewhere....
Frank, ... Yahoo groups supports a 'files' option where files can be up/downloaded. Perhaps these archives could be cut into yearly and put in the 'files' are...
Derek M Jones
derek@...
Oct 30, 2006 4:23 pm
11
Hello all! 8^) P....
Pierpaolo BERNARDI
olopierpa@...
Oct 31, 2006 11:33 am
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... I thought about that but I went to see if there was space and it seems there is only 20M available which is not enough not even for the single file of 32M...
Marius Amado-Alves
amado.alves@...
Oct 31, 2006 11:34 am
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... I can offer disk space and bandwidth if somebody want to make the file available to me to copy of these logs. -- Derek M. Jones...
Derek M Jones
derek@...
Oct 31, 2006 12:54 pm
14
Is the 32M file, zipped or flat? ... From: snobol@yahoogroups.com [mailto:snobol@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Marius Amado-Alves Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006...
... Last time I just did 'du -sh' (disk usage) in my snobol4 mail directory. So - flat, uncompressed file (actually - many thousands of files). I managed to...
you can find (my) S4ML archives in 'Files' section. The biggest (flat) file size -- after removing most headers and significant parts of email addresses and...
Something that I heard once, and have never been able to confirm/deny, is the claim that the Unix approach to file access (e.g. - open(), followed by...
- Hi all! The other day, a fellow in one of the local computer clubs asked me if I knew anything about Ralph Griswold's background. He'd heard that Ralph had...
Mike, Thanks for the resources and the personal observations about this very special man. - JIm ... From: Mike Radow To: SNOBOL4 Yahoo group Sent: Wednesday,...
... I cannot find any evidence for the Snobol<->UNIX link. a) FORTRAN has OPEN and CLOSE statements b) Snobol was implemented on a system with functioning...
You can be 100% sure that the S4 file operations were inherited from FORTRAN; portability was the reason. ... confirm/deny, ... by ... I cannot find any...
Rafal, I studied S4 in school in the early 70's and wrote a sizeable S4 production system (RILM 5-year Index) when I worked for the CUNY Graduate Center in...
(apologies in advance, this may come through twice) Rafal, I studied S4 in school in the early 70's and wrote a sizeable S4 production system (RILM 5-year...
... OPEN and CLOSE statements were implemented in FORTRAN 77; they did not exist in the prior implementations of FORTRAN I used (such as IBM's FORTRAN IV). I...
While it is the case that OPEN and CLOSE did not exist in FORTRAN in the mid sixties, when S4 was being developed, S4 IO was still based on FORTRAN IO. I was...
If I recall correctly, PL/1 had OPEN and CLOSE statements back in the late 1960's... FWIW, I learned SNOBOL3 starting in fall 1970 (and quickly transitioned to...
The reason that (SIL) SNOBOL I/O so strongly resembles FORTRAN I/O is very simple... it's because SIL SNOBOL made use of the FORTRAN I/O package (/library) to...
Hi, Jim. I thought your name sounded familiar. I am Henry Wong and had graduated City College in 1970. Spent some time at the CUNY Graduate Center in the...
Hiya Henry, yes I remember you! :) I graduated CCNY in '72 but I think our contact was at the Grad Ctr where Jon Marz and I were the two snotnosed kids who...
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