werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) (04/25/91)
[ NOTE: the authoritive archive site for MacLayers is RASCAL.ICS.UTEXAS.EDU ] if you notice that other archives make available the MacLayers distribution files, but not the MacLayers Bulletin files #1 and #2 please advice the archive maintainer, or simply retrieve any missing or outdated files from RASCAL and send them to the archive maintainer. Thanks ] Folks, the MacLayers crew discovered that a bug-fix to macbput did not make it into the distribution files last year; which made it rather hard to analyze bug-reports indicating that macbput was often experiencing problems during the transmission of the last block of a file - mainly because we couldn't duplicate the problem on "our system" .... that's one for Murphy, alright! enclosed below is a diff-file indicating the changes required for macbput.c, but if you'd rather pick up the patched macbput.c you can FTP it from RASCAL's directory mac/unix-utilities. ---------- And to wet your appetite, MacLayers 1.1 is currently being worked on, mostly pending bug-fixes and improvements to achieve full(er) VT-100 emulation (we learn as we go along, like everyone else) and MacLayers 2.0, to include a whole long list of new features and improvements, is quite likely to come out before the end of the year (notice the vagueness of the promise though :-) Cheers, ---Werner ---------------- diff output follows ------------ 7a8,9 > * This is the TRUE corrected version for distribution with MacLayers. > * 15c17 < Latest modifications 10/20/88 by Trissel - --- > Latest modification 4/17/91 by Trissel - 16a19,25 > 1. ??? XMODEM block count not fixed in official MacLayers Release??? > Point 4 below claims that it was, however the code obviously does NOT > increment the last block count of the data fork if the data fork is > not an even multiple of 128 bytes in size. > > Modifications 10/20/88 by Trissel - > 354a364,366 > /* FIX (d.t.) recno always increments for any block sent out */ > recno++; /* FIX d.t. */ > recno &= MAXRECNO; /* FIX d.t. */ 362a375,378 > #if 0 > /* This is wrong since it will not up the record count if the > ** last block of the fork is less than DATABYTES in size!! d.t. > */ 364a381 > #endif
drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze) (04/25/91)
has anybody managed to get MacLayers working on an Encore Multimax? If so, please contact me. I seem to be having some trouble. .