glk01126@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/19/89)
Hammering out SPUFILE 2.0, I need some tech advice. 1) Does Malloc(-1L) not work properly? I get various values after deleting a wide array (Mfree) of buffers, e.g. 16304 free. Then after creating another of size ca. 512, I get back to the normal 100K+ value. ??? Is it my program? (probably) 2) Is there anyway to register a continual pressing of a dialog button without an event_multi to check position and state of the mouse, then checking if it is in button area? 3) Is there a problem reading from PC format disks. Some work, others give some bs when doing fsfirst(), fsnext(). 4) Using Laser C 2.0. People interested in SPUFILE 2.0, send your requests. It is a shareware program I have written with a gem interface. It reads files from a variety of types of disks including Aladin 1/2 sided, Magic Sac 1/2 Sided, Atari/PC 1/2 Sided or Spectre 1 sided disks and holds as many as fit in memory. It then writes them back to any of the above type disks on command. Like two continual file selectors, one with files in memory, the other with files on disk. If Dave Small is interested, I'll add Spectre two sided support and send it two him for distribution. Does anyone have the necessary c-code and instructions to turn it into a DA also? Thanks in advance. -Spieu! Gregory Mathias Lemperle-Kerr (Looks like University of Illinois)
glk01126@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/19/89)
ADDENDUM to note: Files written to STdisk if read from mac are FILENAME.MAC FILENAME.MRS FILENAME.MIN the .MIN file contains the original mac name (now converted to 8 chars, uppercase) along with finder info and attribute bits. If the R box is selected, .RSC or .MRS files with the same FILENAME portion will automatically be read along with the FILENAME.EXT file. In addition if the FILENAME.MIN file is in the directory, it will be parsed for its information. When written to a mac disk, an ST file will be converted to filename (lower case) and the RSC included if there is one. (I don't know if there is any use for that unless macGEM comes out). Deleting files from disk or memory is an option as well as a move selector which deletes the selected files from memory after copying to disk. Any other options any one would like to see? Information on the current 'checked in' disk is also shown as well as free space, block size, total space, free memory and files in memory. 10 files of disk and memory each are shown on the screen at once. It only runs in monochrome now. Any requests for color? The resource seems messed up in medium, don't know why. Used RSCTOC.TTP from terminator. -Spieu!
wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace) (10/20/89)
In article <111500042@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, glk01126@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes... > 1) Does Malloc(-1L) not work properly? This only returns the size of the largest chunk of free memory. So if you have holes in your free memory (non-contiguous) then it will return a number smaller than the total of all free memory. --- Ray Wallace (INTERNET,UUCP) wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (UUCP) ...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace (INTERNET) wallace%oldtmr.enet@decwrl.dec.com ---