minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???)) (02/27/90)
Given the number of TSR questions that have been asked lately.. Has anyone out there written any utilities with the program called Tesseract? Its a collection of libraries for Pascal, C, and assembly (and maybe one more language?) whose purpose it is to make writing TSRs simple, easy, and standard. Its a great idea.. I've never had the need to write a TSR, so I haven't used the package. Are there Tesseract TSRs out there that people have written? (please don't send requests for the package - I don't have any way to send programs. Its available lots of places)
adler@tybalt.caltech.edu (B.Thomas Adler) (02/28/90)
In article <14284@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes: >Given the number of TSR questions that have been asked lately.. >Has anyone out there written any utilities with the program called Tesseract? I've written TSRs with the Tesseract package. In particular, I was working on a project which needed TSRs to be used while word-processing. I read all the standard references, most of which did not help. The most useful book I found was "Inside Turbo Pascal" or some such. It's put out by Osbourne, and is a huge book, containing *lots* of useful info for the ibm programmer. It's section on TSR was easy to understand, and included a functioning example of one. Even with all the research I did on TSRs, my program still caused fluctuations in the performance of Word Perfect, and so I resorted to the Tesseract package. I was quite surprised with what I found, and very pleased when my program finally worked with no bugs. (I suspect that I was not being careful enough in using DOS functions, in my original attempts.) The documentation to Tess. is fairly informative, but a little cryptic. I ended up taking the example programs they provided, and hacked in my own code, rather than take the time to figure out what the docs said. Overall, I'd recommend Tesseract, but be prepared for some serious delving into its operation to figure out how to use it, unless you hack on an example, like I did. Happy Hacking! -Bo <adler@csvax.caltech.edu> -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | B. Thomas Adler | "No fucking shit, lady! | | <adler@csvax.caltech.edu> | Do I sound like I'm | | <adler@citjulie.bitnet> | ordering a pizza?!?" |
johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) (02/28/90)
In article <14284@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes: >Has anyone out there written any utilities with the program called Tesseract? I've written several throw away programs using Tesseract when we needed a quickie TSR to capture a screen or perform some other activity. It is an excellent, very robust package. The only complaint I could possibly voice is that the example program tries to do too much, it would have been better for them to produce several simpler programs to demonstrate aspects of the library. If you are looking to produce solid TSR's with all the features of commercial TSR's then you would be well placed to learn how to use their library. The price is also very reasonable. John Munsch