jr@foros1.UUCP (John Rogers) (04/26/84)
Table of Contents - Dr. Dobb's Journal - Apr-84 (#90) Editorial: [DDJ's new relationship with M&T Publishing] (by Reynold Wiggins) Articles: Optimizing Strings in C, by Edward McDermott [Z80 assembler language routines for Small-C, for fast string manipulation] Expert Systems and the Weather, by Jack Park ["an early effort at knowledge engineering using EXPERT-2, a tiny, Forth-based fifth-generation type language"; includes source code in EXPERT-2] RSA: A Public Key Cryptography System, Part II, by C. E. Burton [includes much source code in RATFOR] BASICFMT for TRS-80 (A BASIC Formatter), by Davy Crockett [this one reads tokenized files] Columns: Dr. Dobb's Clinic, by D. E. Cortesi CP/M Exchange, by Robert Blum [CP/M Plus, compatibility, improvements in BDOS function #10 (read console buffer)] 16-Bit Software Toolbox, by Ray Duncan [various MS-DOS, CP/M-86, and CP/M-68K notes, with a sample program in 8086 assembler, to load and execute a .COM file under MS-DOS] C/UNIX Programmer's Notebook, by Anthony Skjellum [discussions of UNIX's philosophy; problems trying to implement C under CP/M; etc. Nothing important] Of interest, by Michael Wiesenberg - TEX from Stanford, the TEXbook, HPTEX, TEX/1000 (for the HP 1000 mini), TYXSet, TUG (TEX Users' Group), a few non-TEX items Reviews: microSUB:MATH, from foehn consulting METAFILE Application Development Systems, from Sensor-Based Systems -- JR (John Rogers) ...ihnp4!fortune!foros1!jr also fortune!jr and proper!jr