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- Little ARexx Proggy(LARP) version 1.1
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-
- Well, not getting into detail. The goal of this program should be
- pretty clear. And the goal - well it's to display little messages in a
- window. You can enter these messages via arexx.
-
- The name of the program's arexx-port(which is a application port - not
- global) is LARP.01 or .02 and so on. It depends on if you have other
- LARPs running. The only command is PUTS "<text here>". Could do lot's
- of other neat commands like LOAD "<filename>" and so on but the goal
- in this project was speed(exactly three hours took this version).
-
- The messages can be 78 chars long and the program holds currently a
- history of 60 messages. You can by resizing the window larger see the
- older messages.
-
- Ok, LARP is public domain, but the code is ©1994 by Aki Laukkanen.
- If you wanna see continuing development - send email (and/or a small
- donation) to me. Note about the code: It's very heavily Dice
- dependant. Meaning that some libraries aren't opened because dice
- opens them automaticly and the whole rexx-support is based on Dice
- making my job a lot more easy.
-
- BUGS
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-
- Program eats exactly 40 bytes of memory every time it's run if you
- don't do anything else than just start the program and exit. More
- memory will be eaten if you send arexx commands to it. The reason to
- this is unknown to me. I would very much like to hear if you find out
- the reason. The Arexx memory eating could be a fault of dice. Not sure
- though.
-
- Program has a dummy way to handle the messages. Every message
- is considered to be 80 bytes.
-
- The way how LARP updates window is dummy. Making LARP slower. Howewer
- I found the speed acceptable on a A1200.
-
- HISTORY
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-
- 1.1 First public release.
- 1.1a Allocates mem dynamicly - rather than just defines it. Also
- some little cleanup.
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- CONTACT
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-
- EMAIL: alaukka@freeport.uwasa.fi
- snail-mail: Aki Laukkanen
- Mesikämmen 10 C 14
- 40400 JKL
- Finland
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