dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) (11/08/90)
This post has two purposes:
1) to inform the people who were having trouble with GSCII crashing after the
stdfile dialogs
2) to mention the progress on GSCII+
first, I found the problem (I think) with GSCII that caused it to crash after
the file selecting... GSCII has to start up the stdfile and list tools by
itself, and I had made a typo (must have been one of those 4 o'clockers) that
COULD sometimes the list toolbox not to be started... GSCII + should fix this,
we'll see how it goes..
second, GSCII+ is almost finished. I have to implement the binscii encoding
and it will be ready for testing. I decided not to implement binhex encoding,
the NDA is getting big enough (50k). It will decode mac resources encoded into
binhex files in two ways:
1. to a file separate from the resource fork (you can
use resource spy to look at these, I've converted a few fonts already.)
2. to the resource fork of the original file. This second method is
supported because GSHK does it, and someday someone might come up with
a resource converter...
if you think that 50k is too big for a DA, please mail me and I will either
produce a GSCii 2.0 without binhex or I will re-do the entire project in
assembler... just depends on the demand.
So, I need beta testers for GSCII+ v1.0
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+ The ...see, the ...Gloria and Tommy, they're two heads and they're not +
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I will be happy to test GSCII+. Your GSCII 1.1 will run on my machine under System Software 5.0.3, but not under 5.0.2 (????). .
taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/09/90)
I would vote for re-coding in assembly, if that will shrink the size of GScii+. Why is it so large? BinSCII is only about 4K, and certainly the extra code to use GS/OS and BinHex won't take up another 46K??? Or can it? Did you get the source code from David Whitney? \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |