To: mit-ccc!soley@mc.lcs.mit.edu --Text Follows This Line-- Lots of stuff done this weekend. Some questions, points, comments, whatever: (1) We probably should re-compile the stuff for a 110 or alpha III band. I ended up needing to send a microcode band over to the machine I was working on - and there will be fewer and fewer 102 bands around .... (2) We no longer use BLDBROWSER. Delete? (Yes or no) (3) The font problem with BRCHARS might be solved by building the font on a TI. Saenz sent something to bug-explorer saying it didn't work, but it worked on mine. Maybe if we port the thing around in AST or KST ... (4) the variables user::*release* and user::*db%release* are unbound. I can guess what they are for .... (5) The intro for interp/debug has these weird characters where it says (Version **** ****). **** **** represent the weird characters. I can't tell whether these should be there or not. May have something to do with (5) above. (6) The LRM has font trouble. Italic and bold appear to be reversed. (7) You can't edit document.txt files in a 102 band. When I edited some in a 110 band, the saved results couldn't be displayed by the browser, I assume because the nodedefs file needs to be re-built. I bet it would be faster for you to tell me how to do this than for me to find out ... (8) in the standard documentation font, the apostrophes are *way* too thick. We should change them. (9) I know we can't get graphics into the browser, but there are a few places (intro to the browser) where we should fake something better. The BRCHARS problem still exists there (because I shortened the font).... (10) ctrl-z should exit the browser, returning you to where it was called from, just like the editor and debugger do. (function-or-terminal) - b is nice but ctrl-z should work too. (11) New browsers should be creatable with system-ctrl-b. (12) I implemented some functions that will parse strings of the form: "The #=*system-or-select* key is #+LMI blue. #+(or Symbolics TI) beige." into "The SYSTEM key is blue." or "The SELECT key is beige." depending on where you are. The mods (to the :add-new-line method of veiwing_frame) appear to work, however because of (7) above I can't actually modify the documents. See "dj:nick;newview-patch". (13) I modified BROWSER so it automagically loads the editor, interp/debug, and LRM documents. Loading the system now takes *twenty* minutes. Save a band? (14) Will we be porting to explorers? Running who's software? #+TI might be defined in an explorer running LMI software. #+Explorer maybe? or #+LMI (select-processor ....) Can we use the explorer here at LMI to do the port? ................................................................................ 2 apr 1 hr 4 apr 2 hrs 5 apr 5 hrs 6 apr 3 hrs ------------- 11 hrs ................................................................................ hope to hear from you soon. Luck, - nic