Report on ship generator.

A thread of 2 messages, 5 November 1991 to 6 November 1991, in the order they were sent.

#3081 Report on ship generator.

Chuck McKnight · 5 November 1991

From:    [email removed]
Date:    05 Nov 1991  1:30 PM CDT
Subject: The Ship Generator

Hi Paul,

I got the ship generator to compile and to run by:

    1) Setting the initial allocation (INIT_ALLOC) to 2000.
    2) Setting the definition for REAL to float from double.
    3) Padding out the tbl_ent structure to 128 bytes so I could declare
       the pointer to the table as a huge pointer.

I am in the process of testing the program (compiled under MSC 6.0a) now,
and will post a copy to sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca as soon as I'm satisfied that
I haven't missed anything that will potentially byte me on the butte!
(Misspellings intentional!)  <grin>

The table takes up 256K of memory as I currently have it configured, and
should run on any 640K machine.  I'll include a readme file with the
differnces and machine minimums before I post it.  Looks like a neat piece
of work otherwise.

Chuck "But I LIKE pulling my hair out doing Unix to MSDOS ports " McKnight
[email removed]

P.S.  I'll make this available for download on my bbs when I'm done if
      that's alright with you.

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#3083 Re: report on ship generator.

Pauli · 6 November 1991 · reply to #3081

hi, yet again

>I got the ship generator to compile and to run by:

Finally!  Could you send me the changes that were necessary so I can merge
them into my copies of the files?


>I am in the process of testing the program (compiled under MSC 6.0a) now,
>and will post a copy to sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca as soon as I'm satisfied that
>I haven't missed anything that will potentially byte me on the butte!
>(Misspellings intentional!)  <grin>

Hmmm, I don't think the actual program isn't on sunbane (yet).  I was waiting
for Richard to do some user documentation for the thing.  Do people want it
put on the archive site without help text?  [ it is quite possible to struggle
through and work out how to use it ].    I should also note that the program
is just about unusable without having the ref's guide next to you (or having
learnt most of the ref's guide while typing in the tables ;-)


>P.S.  I'll make this available for download on my bbs when I'm done if
>      that's alright with you.

I haven't got any objections to that.


        						Pauli

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