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From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
Subject: Software development from Hell!
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.011616.21708@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Summary: Zmodem, UUCP, Swatched Powerglobes, MIDI, 
Keywords: Coffee, Floyd, Pizza, !Homework
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Reply-To: bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
Organization: Mutation Testing Facility, University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 01:16:16 GMT
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  In a mammoth Programming Party involving about $50,000 of computer
equipment, Derek Taubert and I made progress on a number of 
projects that we'd been procrastinating on for too long.

1) Zmodem- I mostly ported the 'rz' program (same as on your Unix
   box!) I fought with an insidious Orca bug for about 12 hours 
   before I figured out what it was and worked around it.  Mike's
   lucky Orca 1.2 is waiting for me at home.
   I'm going to hand the code back to Gregory Ross Thompson to 
   finish up (and do the companion 'sz') before general 
   release.  (And I may decide to rewrite it in assembly for
   intense speed).
2) UUCP- Derek made progress on his background-tasking UUCP 
   daemon for the GS.  He got a basic notification loop that puts
   items in the Run queue to work- which means that your GS will
   soon be able to do UUCP file transfers in the background in
   any application that uses TaskMaster (almost all desktop
   programs).
3) Derek rewrote a 'swatch' desktop clock in Orca/C (originally
   TML pascal).  Besides being only half as large, the program has
   added functionality. It's an NDA with a minimal window- you
   can move it around just by dragging it.
4) Derek continues work on his Nintendo Powerglove driver for GS/OS.
5) Derek converted his MIDI Monitor NDA (a window with a keyboard-
   MIDI info coming across the line gets displayed as a "keypress"
   on the keyboard) to Orca/C.  Still has a bit of a bug, but we're
   working on it.

  We're eager to hear comments on our development efforts from you
folks.  Ideas, suggestions, kudos, whatever.  We'll soon be
posting the results of the Programming Party II to the net and 
information services.  Look for it!
  
--
Jawaid Bazyar               |"I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." 
Senior/Computer Engineering |
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          |"That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R".
   Apple II Forever!        |  (discussion about Orca/C)