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- Just got the March archive from Aminet and found a couple of things to
- comment on. In the beginning of the month there was a little discussion
- about folding loops, and I noticed one thing nobody mentioned.
- The special thing about Procedure and End Proc is that they have to be
- alone on a line. So when you fold up a procedure everything from the line
- below Procedure down to and including End Proc becomes invisible. Loop (and
- other block) commands can be anywhere on a line, e.g.
-
- a$="":Repeat: A$=Inkey$:Until A<>""
-
- This is a block all on one line; how would you fold that? Some languages
- only permit one command on each line, who would want that?
-
- Closer to the middle of the month someone asked for information about
- A\Box. Try www.phase5.de/news/projectinfo/aboxe. (The final e stands for
- English, leave it out and you get everything in German.) There is also a
- Norwegian amigite who's got a great site with lots of Amiga stuff (in
- English) including information about the 'box (and a picture of a prototype
- that looks really cool). I haven't got the address here, but you may try
- searching for his name, which is Alf Inge Wang.
-
- There was also yet another discussion about long files. *sigh* What the
- "No limits" people seem to keep overlooking is that we're not talking about
- one big file or a few big files. I checked the March archive and found that
- there were 57 different contributors. Let's say there were no size limits
- and one tenth of them mailed a 100K file - that's half a meg just from six
- people! Not to mention that the monthly archives grow way out of
- proportion, which causes lots of trouble for "back issue" readers like
- yours truly. Sure, to the majority (?) who's connected at home and can
- download straightto the hard disk it's "only" a question of how much time
- and money they are willing to spend, but to those who have to use floppies
- to bring stuff home it's a question of Can or Can't! (I use a PC for net
- access which means the limit is 720K.)
-
- Time to get a bit more personal...
-
- I noticed that one of my messages got a bit messed up, with a chunk of
- Hotmail HTML code in the middle (!). If you got it that way too, all that
- got lost was the end of the last program line printing out the timing info.
- You can copy that from one of the other programs in the series. None of the
- following text was lost.
-
- *One* subscriber has asked for the betatest version of my text adventure.
- Well, now I've figured out some of the secrets of uploading stuff [and if I
- can do it, so can you... :\], so I'll put the file in the private directory
- on Aminet (at wustl.edu) where it should remain long enough for everyone
- who's interested to download it and see what they think about it. Look for
- Betaeven.lzh. I'm also planning to upload some "official" stuff. Watch
- this space for further news.
-
- No, no, THIS space! :<)
-
- That was supposed to be a snub-nosed smiley, in case anyone here's
- keeping track of these things.
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- "I'm on a seafood diet. When I see food - I eat it!"
- (Buster Bunny)
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