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000009_icon-group-sender _Tue Jan 26 13:09:42 1999.msg
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for icon-group-addresses; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:09:02 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:23:55 -0600
From: MJE <evans@gte.net>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: qei questions
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
What the program needs is conditional compilation around the name of the
Icon compiler...such is typical of cross-platform code...don't know
whether Icon supports it.
Mark
Jim Mehl wrote:
>
> It sounds like Dianna is having the same problem I was having a
> couple of weeks ago. Thanks to help from Steve Wampler, I was able
> to sort it out.
> Dianna didn't say, but I assume she is using the Windows version
> of Icon.
> The problem is that qei (like a lot of other programs in the Icon
> library) makes a call to system("icont ...) to invoke the Icon
> compiler to evaluate expressions. Unfortunately with the Windows
> version, the Icon compiler is named wicont (for the windowing
> version) or nticont (for the command line version).
> The way I solved this was to make a copy of the nticont.exe
> compiler named icont.exe. From a Windows DOS command line issue
> copy nticont.exe icont.exe
> patchstr icont.exe icont.exe
> Patchstr comes with Windows Icon and is described under
> Windows Icon Help -> Known Bugs and Limitations.
> It is also necessary to compile qei.icn with either nticont or the
> icont you just created. What you get is a command line only version
> of qei, but it's better than nothing.
> It might be helpful if the documentation for Windows Icon mentioned
> the fact that the library includes all sorts of calls to icont, but
> that no icont.exe is included.
>
> Jim Mehl
> Los Gatos, CA
> mehl@ihot.com