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From: neves@ai.cs.wisc.edu (David M. Neves)
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Subject: Pascal and Lisp on HP 350's (Bobcats)?
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Date: 3 Feb 89 16:12:48 GMT
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We are having problems with 2 languages on our Bobcats and I wonder if
anyone else has them solved.

1.  HP Pascal (with HP-UX -- or whatever they call it).   There are
several problems here.  a.  File output doesn't work right (rewrite
won't create a file unless it first already exists.  if it does exist
it doesn't erase the old contents).  b.  PDB (pascal debugger) does
work.  We have students using CDB instead.  c.  Bad runtime error
messages.  All errors at said to occur on line 0.

We have had these bugs for at least a year.  Anyone know of fixes?

2.  KCL (Kyoto Common Lisp).  The fellow who brought up KCL doesn't
know how to get the floating point functions (like round) to work.  I
believe this involves modifications to the file num_co.c.  Anyone done
this?

-thanks, david
;David Neves, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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