Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pccuts!acs From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: VT100 v2.9 problems. Message-ID: <847@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> Date: 2 Nov 89 00:08:18 GMT References: <7286@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <1989Oct22.131448.1113@agate.berkeley.edu> <3537@orion.cf.uci.edu> <658@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> <834@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com> <23387@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall) Distribution: usa Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 74 In article <23387@cup.portal.com> plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) writes: :It seems to me that almost all I've seen are problem reports regarding :VT100 2.9. Gee, Tony, it must get pretty frustrating, eh? Yeah but I figure that I'm pretty lucky to only get a half-dozen or so problems reported with a new release. :Well, this isn't another problem. No, this is thanks instead! Nice to hear it. Thanks! :In a recent message, Tony Sumrall writes: : :>> Hmmmm...I compiled with Lattice and [...lots deleted] : :I picked up the sources some days ago, compiled them with Manx 3.6a, and :didn't get a single warning or error. The resulting binary seemed to :work just fine, although I didn't have the time to test it thoroughly. There should be no errors reported with Manx (that's my "production" C compiler...just got the Lattice compiler 'cause I hadn't seen a new Manx version for so long...and I wanted a new toy :-). With Lattice there are quite a few warnings issued from expand.c (never got around to cleaning those up) and a few warnings from script.c (the guy that told me about them was right...I apologize for saying that there weren't any there). There will be a patch release available as soon as I finish closing the rest of the holes (oh, awright, BUGS...you happy now... :-?) :Today I made the 'customary' changes (stuff like moving the window down :one pixel to expose the screen depth gadgets...), recompiled, and :started to tweak my existing scripts for it. (Slight script tweaks :required because lately I've been using VLT for its AREXX support, but :only using a fraction of its features... It's nice, but it's H U G E.) Yeah, that's what I hear from most folks that've stayed with VT100. They like the features that VLT provides but don't wanna "waste" the space on features that they don't use. :While I haven't used it yet, I can see that FORWARD is going to be very :handy. Doesn't that make this the first PD/shareware type terminal that :can do multiple-branch ON...GOTO stuff? Probably not...there's so much out there, y'know. But I'm pretty proud of the FORWARD concept (even though it can slow things down a LOT). It also gave me a way to escape from all of the requests for more flexibility on the script language. I'm planning on eventually paring the language down to just a few commands and do all of the interfacing from AREXX (this will, naturally, be after C=A releases 1.4). :Just a bit more work to get my AREXX function hosts 'wired in' (maybe the :rexxarplib file requestors, too) and I'll be ready to use 2.9 fulltime, :freeing maybe 80K of precious disk space on my non-hard-drive-equipped :system. Would you be so kind as to email me a description of your changes like what extensions you provide and a description of how things appear to the user? I've been considering using rexxarplib if it's already present on the user's system (don't wanna make people acquire things that they don't already have) and so forth. :Nice job, Tony! Looks good so far! I guess the long wait was worth it :after all. Glad you like it. :Rick Plavnicky :{...}!sun!cup.portal.com!plav --- Tony Sumrall author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...) acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com <=> amdahl!pccuts!acs [ Opinions expressed herein are the author's and should not be construed to reflect the views of Amdahl Corp. ]