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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: XSB -- modular screenblanker building kit
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:48:43 GMT
- References: <b16ynaq@rpi.edu>
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- In article <b16ynaq@rpi.edu>, pooler@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole) writes:
- >
- >I grabbed the XSB kit from Fred Fish disk 687. It seemed promising. However,
- >one of the xsb??????.library files was missing -- xsbpsychedelic.library.
- >Since the source and makefile for this .library were present, I figured, why
- >not try to compile it? Whoops! All kinds of errors. Problem number one has
- >to do with the fact that the makefile specifies that the assembler look for
- >includes in AINCLUDE: Reading through the sparse documentation doesn't offer
- >much help, and my efforts to contact the author via email have resulted in
- >naught. I want to know what steps I have to perform to successfully compile
- >the example libraries from the sources given, and in doing so learn how to
- >write my own blanker routines that will work with the XSBCX client program.
- >
- >Anybody out there have any experience with this code? Alternatively, is there
- >another extensible/modular screensaver program out there which provides an
- >easy means for programmers to create blanker modules?
-
- I've also had problems contacting the author about this. I rewrote
- everything necessary to avoid having to use any assembly code at all,
- instead using the library building support in Blink. I also took care
- of some Enforcer hits in XSBCX, etc., and made TestXSB work (it didn't
- at all <on my system> when I got the archive originally).
-
- I was going to pass all this back to the author, but his site returned
- the mail, saying he had to pay for it, and had refused...
-
- Yes, there are two other modular blanker systems out there, but they
- don't come with source, and they both have Enforcer hits and other
- problems...
-
-
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- Jim Cooper
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