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- Ian Palmer & Tom Hughes present :
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- The Great BlibII Release III - The Sequel - With a thousand elephants
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- Release 3 of BlibII contains the following items :
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- !BlibII - Basic Linking Application
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- !TestApp - An example application (unlinked) which demonstrates some
- of the library procedures and functions.
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- Blib - Directory 19 library files, containing over 200 procedures
- and functions.
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- Docs - Documentation for BlibII
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- Licences - End user licences for both the linker and supplied
- library files.
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- Please make sure you read the end user licences and the documentation BEFORE
- attempting to use the linker. Before linking you will need to install the
- supplied libraries, this is explained in the documentation.
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- The main change noticeable since release 1 of BlibII is with the supplied
- library collection. This is now over twice the original size. This is in
- a large way due to the efforts of Tom Hughes who has supplied many new
- libraries (Draw, DrawWin, Font, Message, Sprite and Transfer) as well as
- several new functionality to existing libraries (in particular Wimp).
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- The supplied libraries now offer a massive collection of Wimp based procedures
- and functions which will provide most of the interaction between your program
- and the Wimp.
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- There is now a completely new Memory library (version 2.01) which is a
- complete rewrite, and now offers all the functionality of the first version,
- but with about 3 times the speed.
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- Finally, several bugs have been fixed.
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- Will it stop here?
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- I certainly hope not. But the fastest way that the library can expand is
- with contributions from others. So if you have any procedures/functions/
- libraries you think will be useful to others (even if they are fairly
- specialised) why not send them in to me for inclusion in the next release
- of BlibII.
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- If you make extensions/corrections to existing libraries it would be helpful
- if you only send those procedures/functions that you have changed.
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- Contacting the authors
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- You can e-mail me at : ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (until Sept 1994)
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- or snail-mail me at : 40, Birch Crescent,
- Aylesford,
- Kent. ME20 7QE.
- England.
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- Tom Hughes can be contacted at :
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- snail-mail : 21 Parklands, (there-after)
- Wotton-under-Edge,
- Gloucestershire,
- GL12 7LT.
- England.
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