Peter L. Berghold · 29 November 1990 · reply to #1872
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*| Last week I spouted off about being more interested in working with
*| TML sophonts on programs to help the GM, than in directly addressing
*| TDR rules-generation stuff. This has sparked some interest, and some
*| heat as well as light. This message is a summary of CAT to date, a
*| list of existing participants, and (I hope) removal of some floatsam.
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*| Current participants:
*| Richard Johnson [email removed]
*| Chuck McKnight [email removed]
*| Paul Dale grue@batserver.
*| Dan Corrin [email removed]
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Add me to that list. I am MORE than willing to participate.
*| We, so far, do not actually have a co-ordinator. We usually just copy
*| everyone who is participating, as I am with this message. This one I
*| felt should be echoed to the TML as well -- sort of a gentle reminder
*| to others that if they are interested, they can join in. The feeling of
*| most of us is that software is better done quietly in private (and
*| wash your hands afterwards. :-) Actually, we're deliberately trying to
*| avoid committee-think.
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OK. So maybe the fact that the stuff I'm working on already is
written in C++ won't be a problem? How many folks out there have
access to a C++ compiler?
*| Our primary goal right now was IMHO best expressed by Dan:
*| A pc in front of every ref? I could care less. I want a pc in
*| front of *me* while I am refing. So do others on the list, and
*| I just think that we should get together to program so we don't
*| waste our efforts.
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My current project for MSDOS is a program called "refaid." This
program would allow a ref to create "people, places, and things"
and associate them with other "people, places, and things." Sort
of a tailored RDB program.
*| Chuck is currently doing MSDOS ports of existing software on the TML.
*| Dan and Paul are working on a Deck Plan generator, and I'm just trying
*| to collect everything so I can see what programs I want to port to
*| what machines. My eventual goal is to have a bunch of programs we can
*| put together as a package for distribution, a package that covers most
*| of the most-needed stuff.
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This is the one facet that I had not anticipated working on for
refaid.
*| I think most of us are out for personal fun, not profit. We'll take the
*| cash if it falls in our laps, though.
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My plan was to release refaid as a user supported program. Send me
$ if you want, but mostly I am writing refaid for the fun of it.
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*| Mark and Dan have been discussing the role of CAT<-->TDR. My view, shaped
*| largely by Dan's, is that we're programming for ourselves, and sharing
*| information. Right now we're doing MT rules, because they exist. If,
*| in the future, someone (or several) want to port the programs to TDR rules,
*| we'll help all we can.
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I think that any programs that get written should have both
elements of regular mainstream traveller as well as TDR. If
released as source code, compiler/preprocessor directives can be
added to the code to conditionally include/exclude TDR and or MT.
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*| I'm not sure what Robert Poole is doing, but did understand he was archiving
*| software for TDR, or something like that. Robert, if you get your copy,
*| please let at least one of us know if and how we should co-ordinate
*| efforts.
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I spoke to Robert Poole and I plan to clean up some OT npc
generation programs that I wrote and post them with him. I also am
going to (I don't know when, I'm real busy right now) port this old
code to MSDOS and release it as executables. I also want to write
some documentation before releasing it.
I'd love to see all this happen. I just hope it doesn't die a crib
death.....
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