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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:07:26 MST
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 05:09:26 MST
From: "Ralph Griswold" <ralph>
Message-Id: <199311151209.AA16176@cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu>
To: icon-group
Subject: MS-DOS Icon executables
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
We received both of Mr. Mengarini's earlier messages on this subject and
responded requesting that he send the material he has to us. We
heard nothing further. This is no doubt one of those communication
problems that sometimes happen with electronic mail and leave the
impression of disinterest on both sides.
As Richard Goerwitz said, we have very limited resources and can't do
everything everyone would like us to do. We also have limited technical
competence in some areas, including MS-DOS. We rely, instead, on the
contributions of persons outside our organization. That's the way that
most implementations of Icon were done originally. We incorporate
such contributions and provide what support we can for them.
Since we have limited resources, we have to be selective about what we
do. We try to strike a balance between innovation and support. At
present, we're putting most of our effort into enhancing the graphics
capabilities of Icon.
Although we're not fond of MS-DOS, we recognize its importance.
There are far and away more Icon installations for MS-DOS than for any
other platform and this situation probably will continue for the foreseeable
future.
We've put a great deal of time and effort into the MS-DOS implemementation
of Icon in the past and no doubt will continue to do so. However, we also
have to consider newer systems, like NT.
On the subject of "re-inventing the wheel", many platform-specific things have
been done for Icon. The variant translator system presently is supported
only for UNIX, but it could be adapted to any platform that has a robust
version of Yacc. Documentation is available for variant translators and
other support tools and extensions to Icon via FTP or FTPmail.
Ralph E. Griswold ralph@cs.arizona.edu
Department of Computer Science uunet!arizona!ralph
The University of Arizona 602-621-6609 (voice)
Tucson, AZ 85721 602-621-9618 (fax)
for Icon