[comp.sys.atari.st] Gulam questions

jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) (07/06/88)

Can anyone tell me if the gulam on various servers (v 1.03.04?) is the
latest?  Is there a list of bugs fixed since previosu releases?  Thanks
in advance.

gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) (01/30/91)

I ran across something weird with Gulam that I'd like to know more
about.  Here's the situ: I uuencoded a ST binary and split the
resulting file into three pieces.  Copied those to ms-dos format
floppies and brought them home to my Mega/STe.  Copies the files onto
the HD and ran Gulam so I could 'cat' them together.  Right?  Wrong.
Not.  I also tried 'cat filename' and nothing was shown on the screen.
Hmmm.  'ue' loads and modifies the files just fine.  'cat' still won't
show the file.  Created a new file with 'ue' and that does 'cat'
properly.  What's going on?  Hints?  Ideas?

Also, atari.archive has Gulam 1.03.04.05 12/18/87.  Is that the last
version known?  Is src available?  Seems like a really nice shell and
it would be a shame to see it perish.

Thanx.

Joe
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gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) (01/30/91)

(Joe Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) writes about gulam and cat.

I don't think that 'cat' is straightforward under TOS. I was warned that 'cat'
in gulam doesn't work as expected. Someone on the net supplied 'filecat', a
utility which *does* perform file concatenation. You should be able to pick it
up on atari.archive. 

I tried compiling up the GNU file utility 'cat' to see if I could get round the
problem that way. It compiled up OK, but running it results in OS errors
(sigh).

I believe the author of gulam is no longer working with STs.

Graham
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klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (01/31/91)

In article <4094@eastapps.East.Sun.COM>, gaudreau@juggler.East.Sun.COM (Joe
Gaudreau - Sun BOS Software) writes:
|> I also tried 'cat filename' and nothing was shown on the screen.
|> Hmmm.  'ue' loads and modifies the files just fine.  'cat' still won't
|> show the file.  Created a new file with 'ue' and that does 'cat'
|> properly.  What's going on?  Hints?  Ideas?

The Gulam 'cat' does not work properly. I once wrote a replacement which
can be retrieved from the panarthae archive server as volume6/cat. Its also
available for anonymous FTP from atari.archive.umich.edu.

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comeau@crc.skl.dnd.ca (Phil Comeau) (01/31/91)

On the subject of Gulam, perhaps someone can suggest a work-around to a
problem I've had. Suppose I execute a Gulam script (a "*.g" file), then
subsequently edit that script. If I try to execute the script again,
Gulam displays the message "Old buffer" and executes the script as it was
before I edited it.

What I want, of course, is for Gulam to execute the new version of the
script. I should point out that I use STeVIe for editing, and not Gulam's
built-in "ue" editor.

Thanks for any help.

Phil Comeau - comeau@crc.skl.dnd.ca - (613) 831-0888

arktik@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Ryan Daum) (02/08/91)

 I think the fellows problem with 'cat' in Gulam is that cat loads the 
file into memory before displaying it.  Therefore if it runs out of 
memory, it just doesn't display it.  For some reason, ue often works.

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