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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Line/char number for PD-Modula2 error files
Message-ID: <1386@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 16 Jun 89 14:19:32 GMT
References: <2428@water.waterloo.edu>
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: jmlang@water.waterloo.edu (Jerome M Lang)

In article <2428@water.waterloo.edu>, jmlang@water (Jerome M Lang) writes:

 `  Has anybody figured out how to use the error files that the
 `PD-Modula2 generates? I presume that the editor that is mentionned
 `in the menu should be able to handle these files; however, no
 `editors ever came with the distribution.  I can't quite figure out
 `the format used to embed the line/position of the error. I just
 `know that if I insert a blank line/space before an error, then
 `something changes in the error file.
 `
The line/char number uses the 'LED-digits' in the ATARI character set.
Apparently they have an editor that recognizes these. If you don't know
what that means: it is in decimal, where the character representation is:

0x10 -> '0'
0x11 -> '1'

I have written an intermediate program 'editor.prg', that I posted some
time ago. I have improved this to convert the line/char number to normal
ASCII chars. I will post this tomorrow.

By the way, this is not in the docs, I just found this by reading the error
file with the program 'memfile 1.4'
-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)