Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: ABE Source (Part 1/3) & introduction Summary: Not to mention non-portable as posted Message-ID: <333@comcon.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 90 06:11:39 GMT References: <100765@looking.on.ca> <534@sixhub.UUCP> Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 32 In article <534@sixhub.UUCP>, davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > Sometimes people get carried away with cleverness, and this looks like > one. People on the net understand shar format, and have tools they like > to handle it. You have managed to post both source and binary in a > discussion group in one swell foop, and in two unusual formats! Not to mention... I was able to unpack, etc., the posting on this Unix account. When I tried to do the same on my PC, however, the fun really began. Turbo C compiled the Tiny-DABE with no complaints, but the result just plain didn't work. The file produced was reported 'not an archive' by PKXARC and ARCE. As a side note, DABE is a filter, and filters are wasteful of system resources on a PC under MS-DOS, since DOS passes once to create a temporary file, and then hands the tempfile to the next process as stdin. Writing with the idea of 'filter outfile' would only need one pass on the source file. I transferred the extracted sources to my PC, but I haven't had the chance to try porting them. The source archive is replete with filenames that are illegal under DOS, and will need some massaging. (I thought we were trying to find tools for DOS machines... ABE appears to be much more oriented toward Unix) -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |