Larry Masinter
Larry Masinter
There is a problem with the “name” of a command in that commands are case and package independent but the file manager doesn’t know that. So while the symbols SEE,...
The command `? see` should work in the XCL exec too.
Looks to me like this problem happens if you start any sysout with "LDEINIT" set to a filename that doesn't exist (any more). A simple fix is to put the...
There are two levels of event processing "restart" events ... the DEVICEEVENTFN for BEFORE, AFTER and AFTER DO càses of SAVEVM, LOGOUT, SYSOUT, and MAKESYS and the user level BEFORE...
INTERPRET.REM.CM was entirely my invention in the heat of trying to get a process of making a loadup automatically. In retrospect, using the "GREET" file to wire the steps together...
Still, we probably want to look at pseudohosts to deal with the situation. |. | before | after restart | after Do | |--------|--------|--------|-------| | savevm | force open output...
there is also https://github.com/masinter/parcftp-cl/blob/main/cl/cleanup/old-mail/pathname-subdirectory-list.mail -- the mail archives of the discussion about the issue. [PATHNAME-SUBDIRECTORY-LIST.mail.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20448068/PATHNAME-SUBDIRECTORY-LIST.mail.txt) There are archives of email for most of the CL issues.
> If you are converting a file foo.txt from plaintext to formatted, should it offer the new filename with a formatting extension (foo.tedit) or still offer foo.txt ? a .txt...
with the introduction of 4-byte atoms, there is no longer a difference between storage left for atoms (symbols) vs storage left for anythhing. I remember patching STORAGE (and \MAPMDS) to...
SEDIT-DEBUG is interesting -- a set of utilities, e.g., changing FNS to FUNCTIONS. There are no mentions of SEDIT-DEBUG anywhere (`grep -lri sedit-debug `) in any documentation or other files....