- Since numerous followers of this list are also active VB users, I suggest those also interested in XML-related concepts visit their local bookstore and...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jul 5, 2000 9:26 pm
3329
Dear SNOBOLers, I vaguely recall being able to convert from unix to ms-dos eol codes using SPITBOL under NT with the following minimal code: * eol.spt loop...
David J Birnbaum
djbpitt+@...
Jul 10, 2000 12:11 pm
3330
Maybe this will be of some use. INPUTFILE and OUTPUTFILE are obtained from user input. INPUT(.IN,.IN,INPUTFILE "[-r5000]") OUTPUT(.OUT,.OUT,OUTPUTFILE) ...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Jul 10, 2000 2:19 pm
3331
Dear Kevin, Thanks for the quick reply! Cheers, David ________ Professor David J. Birnbaum Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1417 Cathedral of...
David J Birnbaum
djbpitt+@...
Jul 10, 2000 2:42 pm
3332
- Reference: Linkname: Use Web forms and databases to create custom PDFs on the fly URL: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/pdfs/?loc=013&t=nI0519...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jul 10, 2000 5:23 pm
3333
... URL: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/pdfs/?loc=013&t=nI0519 This article describes how to dynamically build PDFs. ... totally automated --...
gep2@...
Jul 10, 2000 6:07 pm
3334
- On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... ... - 2 things...: 1. Not obvious this does: ?Have you actually determined this? 2. A...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jul 10, 2000 6:30 pm
3335
... No, not yet. That's why I said "most" and "usually". I'm busy as hell at the moment (it IS a Monday) and simply don't have time to study your post in...
gep2@...
Jul 10, 2000 7:25 pm
3336
Gordon wrote about using Windows printer drivers with DOS programs. I'm interested in that concept, not for the Adobe Acrobat connection, but because I use a...
Mark Laster
mlaster@...
Jul 11, 2000 12:38 am
3337
... I'm interested in that concept, not for the Adobe Acrobat connection, but because I use a printer (HP Deskjet 712C) that, like many others on the market,...
gep2@...
Jul 12, 2000 3:14 am
3338
- On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Mark Laster wrote: ...snipped... ... - The entire 7xx series is "Window only" and accepts only driver-created bit-mapped images. These...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jul 12, 2000 5:08 am
3339
- On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... [Gordon] ... [Mike] ... [Gordon] ... .. ... - Your speculations caused an (unusual) flurry of...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jul 12, 2000 5:39 am
3340
We publish a small monthly magazine, and we use Spitbol extensively. I'd like to use it some more if I can figure out how, and this seems like the place to...
Ed Quillen
cozine@...
Aug 4, 2000 6:52 pm
3341
- Good news: The list-server is still alive and well, in Madison SD ! On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Ed Quillen wrote: ...snipped... ... - Without ActiveX / COM support...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 4, 2000 8:13 pm
3342
... like to use it some more if I can figure out how, and this seems like the place to ask. ... advertising. It struck me that using a browser like Netscape...
gep2@...
Aug 5, 2000 9:09 am
3343
- Having read the posting by mitsotsen <x>, I see he is narbnid <y>. Kindly permit me to apologize for _his_ failings. ... - [ Mike Radow, a/k/a mitsotsen ]...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 6, 2000 8:55 pm
3344
<<Plug-ins are mostly written in C++. Some have been written in smalltalk, Delphi (Pascal), and PowerBuilder. VB is also suitable, now that it can create DLL...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Aug 6, 2000 9:14 pm
3345
While I agree that it would be desirable (especially for a large batch type process, with transactions one right after another) to not have to reload SPITBOL...
gep2@...
Aug 6, 2000 9:27 pm
3346
Now that people have suggested languages, references, and techniques, I'll try to take a giant step backward (ignoring the past 15 years of software progress):...
Mark Laster
mlaster@...
Aug 7, 2000 12:31 am
3347
... try to take a giant step backward (ignoring the past 15 years of software progress): is it necessary or advantageous to check your database, using S*BOL,...
gep2@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:03 am
3348
Gordon's got it right. My thinking was that I know how to write HTML, and I know how to make Spitbol write HTML. I also know that handling display screens,...
Ed Quillen
cozine@...
Aug 7, 2000 3:22 pm
3349
... I know how to make Spitbol write HTML. I also know that handling display screens, forms, data entry, etc., is a lot of work in Spitbol, whereas that's...
gep2@...
Aug 7, 2000 4:33 pm
3350
Gordon wrote; ... I agree. It should be quick to get going, and portable. I've always wanted to write a CGI library for SNOBOL, but I haven't (yet). Here is...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Aug 7, 2000 5:01 pm
3351
- On Sun, 6 Aug 2000 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... ... .. ... - Gordon: Good points! This will sure be the way-of-the-future. XML provides a huge...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 7, 2000 6:03 pm
3352
- On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... ... ..and... On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Phil Budne wrote: ...snipped... ... - Neat!, _if_ you can support...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Aug 7, 2000 6:46 pm
3353
I do not yet see where pattern matching plays a role in this application. Assuming you would run this on a Windows OS, the simplest and quickest solution...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:56 pm
3354
... I don't think there's that much overhead involved with having a Web server running, given especially the inconsequential amount of data flowing through it ...
gep2@...
Aug 8, 2000 1:05 am
3355
... ========================================================== * hello2.spt - unified version of hello.spt * * test cgi program written in spitbol ...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 8, 2000 1:53 am
3356
The file below was screwed up (i.e. reformatted) by notepad and eudora during posting. I will repost it if it's too hard to decipher. ... QUERY_STRING =...
David Feustel
dfeustel@...
Aug 8, 2000 10:44 am
3357
Of interest about Microshaft's Net ubersystem: it supports Smalltalk, Python, VB, C++, C# and a few others but *NOT* Java. ... Enoch Sower, Objectician,...