dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (12/08/86)
I got EGAD! alpha over our local BBS. Unfortunetly, it's living up to its Alpha designation by crashing at odd (and even) times. Unfortunetly, I have found V-Alpha unusable for serious development work. It really needs a *lot* of work, but promises to be a fantastic developer's tool when the bugs finally do get ironed out. This has nothing to do with the OS version... it crashes under both 1.1 and 1.2Gamma. On another note and Re: 1.2, the reason why some Manx programs die under 1.2 is well known: Manx used a cluge to get the BCPL enviroment for it's fexecv() call. Unfortunetly, this required delving into structures that have changed between versions. However, I blame C-A for this problem as they have yet to come out with a system call which allows file-handle redirection of both stdinput and stdout that also returns the exit code. -Matt