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From: DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET (Denis W. Haskin/Manager/Tech Services)
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Subject: re: print symbionts
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 11:23:00 EDT
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> I would be interested in hearin> g from anyone who has written a user output
> routine to replace the main output routine in the print symbiont. I have
> done this, but the symbiont exits with an access violation AFTER my output
> routine has successfully completed with SS$_NORMAL for the first output
> record. I would like to see a working output routine to see if there is
> anything I am misunderstanding.

I have Bliss source of a modified print symbiont which I have not yet
investigated (got them for the same reason you ask -- to get a better
understanding of what makes a working symbiont tick).  I can forward them to
you, or you may want to contact Peg Heffron (HEFFRON@SUNRISE.BITNET) from whom
I got them originally.  This symbiont modifies the flag page.

If anyone out there has a quick way to convert Bliss source into something a
little more general (Pascal, C, BASIC (?), even COBOL...), please let me know.

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