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- Hello! By taking the time to pull this patch off the net, I assume
- that you have unpacked and compiled Chemtab Version 1.0. I'm glad
- that you could find a use for my program, entertainment, education or
- what have you. This is the first patch to Chemtab V1.0, which contains
- minimal patches.
- *** I ask that someone out there, perhaps you, would look at the
- code for wgetnum() in dogph.c. The delete does not work as
- it should, and I have tried to fix it too many times and failed.
- Please, if you manage to fix it up, send the fixes to me and
- I will post them to the world (with a letter of gratitude!)
-
- Here is what's fixed:
-
- Problem 1) If the transcript file could not be opened, the core dumped
- because the program did not check to see if there was an error
- opening this file. This has been corrected.
- Problem 2) A curses macro (wgetch()) wal called with no argument. This made
- no difference on my system (strange) but it did on others.
- This was fixed.
- Problem 3) The program seemed to think it could get away with making
- a transcript of what you were doing even if you typed NO for
- a transcript. This SHOULD be fixed!
- Problem 4) In cleanup.c, I forgot to make the program portable by letting
- people use their own lpr program. Files tune.h and cleanup.c
- were changed to fix this small problem. Please check tune.h
- and make sure every pathname and program name will work on your
- system!
- Misc) Unused and redeclared variables have been fixed, with the help of
- lint!
-
- Thanks to Peter Knoppers - knop@duteca.tudelft.nl in the Netherlands
- for his speedy and helpful feedback to get these patches out ASAP so that
- people can actually USE the program.
-
- *** Anyone who is interested in hacking the code up to make the program
- completely SYSV portable (or any other system for that matter) please
- do, and send the diffs to me!
-
- *** Chemtab 2.0 is currently being written .. Chemtab 2.0 is the MAC version.
- hopefully, once it is finished, it will be available to the general
- public for use!
-
- Thanks for reading this whole thing! - Jim
-