- Last week, a group of us trooped-off to the huge Internet Show, at NYC's Javits Center. It entirely filled both floors _and_ a large barrel-vaulted tent,...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 2, 2000 2:27 am
3603
- On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Mike Radow wrote: ...snipped... ... - I received several direct emails, from folks doubting this pricing and/or my sanity. This deals...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 4, 2000 7:46 pm
3604
... Well, at least it apparently works for a much larger percentage of the market than the stuff that's Unix-only! Talking about which... does anybody know...
gep2@...
Nov 5, 2000 8:14 pm
3605
- Gordon: Hi! I've taken the liberty to start a new, gemanely-named thread, using your tag-along's query; I assume that this is OK with you. ...and... On Sun,...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 6, 2000 5:09 pm
3606
- Here's a SLOBOL4 smile...: I work with fellow, a good guy, who has been programming for decades. An ace with AWK (& YACC, LEX, ...) and Perl, he'd never...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 7, 2000 6:46 pm
3607
Documentation is an interesting question, and while I don't really need a tutorial, it would be nice to have an online reference that could go on a laptop. ...
Paul K. Kilpatrick
paul.kilpatrick@...
Nov 7, 2000 7:43 pm
3608
... When I was young and naive, before I learned how matching works internally. I always wrote unanchored patterns, and used ARB and ARBNO() liberally. Now...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Nov 7, 2000 8:19 pm
3609
- On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Phil Budne wrote: ...snipped... ... - The new S4-convert has emailed 3 times today, announcing "magic" he's sure that _he_ is the first...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 7, 2000 9:08 pm
3610
... Orange book says it was first in SPITBOL, so I'd trust that. :)...
joe@...
Nov 7, 2000 9:33 pm
3611
- Phil's mention of Sitbol reminds me of Jerry Leichter. He wrote an APL interpreter that was implemented in Sitbol: It likely made very heavy use of CODE() ! ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 7, 2000 9:35 pm
3612
Mike wrote (regarding BREAKX); ... Nope, all the SPITBOL features in my SNOBOL4 port came from either Catspaw SNOBOL4+ or Minnesota SNOBOL4. I still have...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Nov 7, 2000 10:05 pm
3613
It was in SPITBOL first, BREAKX was my invention, at least that's what my rusty memory says....
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 7, 2000 10:10 pm
3614
- On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Mike Radow wrote: ...snipped... - ... - ... Turns out, we even know the firms he's at...: Linkname: SMARTS: Automating Real-time Network...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 7, 2000 11:24 pm
3615
I've placed a PDF version of the SPITBOL manual on the SNOBOL4 FTP site. The file is 1.6 MB, and can be downloaded from: ftp.snobol4.com/spitman.pdf The TOC...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:04 am
3616
- On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Mike Radow wrote: ...snipped... - ... - Also included were inquiries about APLBOL, the APL_interpreter that Jerry Leichter implemented in...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:51 am
3617
... - It sure does: Thanks! Mike - eot...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Nov 8, 2000 1:04 am
3618
... I think one that he depended on was the ability to do (relative?) numeric goto's within code blocks with ":<n>" we had a discussion about this a number of...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Nov 8, 2000 1:50 am
3619
... Try using BREAKX(&ALPHABET) instead of ARB and see what's best. For instance: ============================ S = DUPL(" ",1000000) "." P1 = POS(0) ARB "." $...
P.A. Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Nov 8, 2000 9:19 am
3620
UGH! BREAKX(&ALPHABET) is truly a gruesome distortion, the idea of checking each character to see if it is any of "all possible characters" is a bit absurd. If...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 8, 2000 11:02 am
3621
... You don't say! Next you're going to tell us that you don't like ARBNO(LEN(1)) either ;-) Peter-Arno Coppen...
P.A. Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:12 pm
3622
<<You don't say! Next you're going to tell us that you don't like ARBNO(LEN(1)) either ;-) ... No, I much prefer ARBNO(ARBNO(ARBNO(LEN(1)))). That should...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:20 pm
3623
Mark, It helps greatly, and is even more than I had hoped to gather. It also provides an excellent tutorial, better even than the green book, to ...
Paul K. Kilpatrick
paul.kilpatrick@...
Nov 8, 2000 3:01 pm
3624
... Wonderful! Thank you very much. That really helps, as I have SPITBOL on my laptop, and lugging around the printed manual, while great for building ...
J. David Bryan
dbryan@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:23 am
3625
... provides an excellent tutorial, better even than the green book, to snobol/spitbol. I've *always* thought that Mark's book (even back at the SNOBOL4+...
gep2@...
Nov 9, 2000 6:14 am
3626
For an urgent data recovery effort I would VERY much like to be able to read PHYSICAL disk sectors from a damaged drive. I know in advance that MANY of these...
gep2@...
Nov 9, 2000 6:22 am
3627
Gordon, You'll need to create a SNOBOL4+ external function with an assembled-in 512 byte buffer. Pass it head, sector, and cylinder integer arguments, and do...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Nov 9, 2000 2:19 pm
3628
Hello compatriots! This is just a sidebar to GEP's request for help ... ... Many years ago, when, besides being an Assistant Professor at Queen's University...
John H. Lindsay
eil@...
Nov 9, 2000 4:28 pm
3629
... program being aborted or anything as a result of that. [description of a damaged tape...] ... 360 we had and declared the tape files to be of type U ...
gep2@...
Nov 9, 2000 4:44 pm
3630
... byte buffer. Pass it head, sector, and cylinder integer arguments, and do an INT 13H call within the function, then return the 512-byte buffer as a string...
gep2@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:22 pm
3631
... function with an assembled-in 512 ... the function, then return the ... Too bad you're not running on a PDP-11. You could use TECO, which could read...
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