CSvax:Pucc-H:Physics:piner@pur-ee.UUCP (06/22/83)
I just tried out my new Fortran compiler from Radio Shack on my new MAX-80 (running under LDOS). The compiler seems to work. But the linker crashes (rebooted system when done), and the editor added garbage to the end of the file when it closed the file!!! I can guess why it doesn't work. Trsdos 2.3 is unlike, LDOS, NEWDOS, or even Trsdos 6.0 (clone of LDOS?). But you say, "I thought R.S. sells LDOS now?" They do, but why should they worry if any of their other software runs under it. So caveat emptor, y'all. Rich Piner Purdue Physics Dept. P.S. The MAX and LDOS are really very nice, it's a shame good software is so hard to come by. Let's hope Lobo keeps their promise, and develope their own software.
stevea@uiucdcs.UUCP (06/24/83)
#R:pur-phy:-79200:uiucdcs:10400072:000:704 uiucdcs!stevea Jun 23 11:21:00 1983 I would bet that the editor problem is caused by a difference in the way LDOS and TRSDOS 1.3 (as well as NEWDOS/80) keep track of the EOF in the File Control Block. This usually results in one extra record of crap at the end of the file if the file does not end on a sector boundary. Unfortunately, the only patches that I have for any R.S. software were to make them do it the way NEWDOS does, as opposed to the way Model I TRSDOS 2.3 did it. The NEWDOS way is better for variable length records, which is why Radio Shack adopted it for their COBOL system. It's too bad that LOBO hasn't seen the light. Steve Alexander ...![parsec,pur-ee]!uiucdcs!stevea stevea.uiuc@Rand-Relay