Larry Masinter

Add some Q&A for the FAQ page chosen from answered questions already on the web.

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I know there was an issue "Want a FAQ page", but that kind of begs the question of "How should I ask questions?". People ask questions in lots of places...

MAKEFILE(... NEW) errors when there is a bad filemap

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This is a little tricky to reproduce, apparently The file is loops/library/GAUGES When I LOAD it PROP and edit the function DrawHTick and change 'bin' to 'bind'. When I MAKEFILE(GAUGES...

NIL is not a NUMBER in FFILEPOS

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  looks like *BYTECOUNTER* is NIL

cpv problems in loadup scripts

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pr #1500 isn't enough. If you start with a clean clone of medley (no loadups directory), it fails. If there's already loadups and you're just doing another one, it works...

Occasionally, errors pop up. IT would be good to verify (in GITFNS) that * THe compiled file was compiled from the source file. * * The compiled file is complete...

Want PDFs of Medley files searchable on the net

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As listed in issue #1373, we have PDFs for both Lisp source code (using prettyfileindex) and also tedit, sketch files. But those were originally done for testing, and the results...

more documents and videos for the using-medley path

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We established a path through the documentation, but I wanted to make sure there was an open issue to complete the task. In particular, let's make sure the documents are...

Want support for color displays and bitmaps

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there were some D machines with Color (michele has a color board 512x512x24 bits).

"Running Medley Interlisp" => "Running Medley"

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https://interlisp.org/software/using/running/ This is hard to get straight and we've waffled on this in the past, but I think the conclusion Interlisp is the historical roots The Medley Interlisp Project" is...

Run benchmarks (with caution )

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When you get to running Maiko benchmarks, there are a lot of adjustments to make to the compilation options -- I don't turn things up to maximum performance by default....