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BROWSER library errors instead of showing paths

Open masinter opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

This has turned out to be a rabbit hole of issues. The library file "BROWSER" is supposed to do a patch to change . SHOW PATHS commands to show a graph (using grapher).
It was done by rewriting the (internal?) function MSPATHS by defining NUMSPATHS with the new definition, and doing MOVDs (using OLDMSPATHS to stash. However, the code in NUMSPATHS doesn't match that in (the official) MSPATHS and is missing a SPECVARS declaration for CALLRELATION. I was suspecting version skew and went looking to see by FILECREATED dates. The definitions of MSPATHS and NUMSPATHS have edited by jrb in 87. medley/library/BROWSER was made in 94 on PELE:MV:ENVOS,

Anyway that's as far as I got before deciding to put this aside and writing it up.

masinter avatar Aug 30 '21 04:08 masinter

When you opened the issue did . SHOW PATHS not work at all? In current Medley with BROAWSER loaded . SHOW PATHS works as expected with no errors.

pamoroso avatar Aug 30 '25 20:08 pamoroso

With the fuller database loaded, the result is not useful

rmkaplan avatar Aug 30 '25 20:08 rmkaplan