TIPI - Geneve 9640 to Raspberry PI interface development

[+jedimatt42]

44 minutes ago, 9640News said:

Thanks for that reminder.  I might have fallen into that trap, though it should have been obvious to a few of us.  I am unlikely to have more than one or two directories, and maybe this will be answered after you have completed the code.  If there are multiple paths specified with the  upcoming configuration and it extends beyond 80 characters, will it use the underscore key to wrap to the next line, or just continuous text onto the next line?

 

Beery

 

Ah, it looks like PI.CONFIG enforces a limit of 80 columns, and it doesn't know anything about wrapping.. that's not compatible with my mental model... I will fix it so you can open it with longer record lengths to set longer values... but that will still limit you to a 254 character record. 

 

I'm curious, I've never heard of anything where an '_' indicates line continuation... what platform/system/software does that? 

[+9640News]

2 hours ago, jedimatt42 said:

 

Ah, it looks like PI.CONFIG enforces a limit of 80 columns, and it doesn't know anything about wrapping.. that's not compatible with my mental model... I will fix it so you can open it with longer record lengths to set longer values... but that will still limit you to a 254 character record. 

 

I'm curious, I've never heard of anything where an '_' indicates line continuation... what platform/system/software does that? 

It isn't TI-99/4A programming with the '_'.  I am thinking VBA is where I have seen things extended to the next line instead of having a line extremely wide.

[+jedimatt42]

On the pandemic club zoom call yesterday, we realized more needs to be done to fullfil the user case. 

 

That is direct-input and direct-output support for VARIABLE record files, to enable copying to and from ramdisks.

[+9640News]

@InsaneMultitasker, some background from yesterday's Zoom call.

 

In discussion with Matt yesterday, disk managers are doing sector reads/writes so any file copying was not being translated to a text file. I tested both the MDOS CLI COPY command and GDM2K.  As DM2K and GDM2K use block access rather than record access, @jedimatt42 was going to add some extra code to translate anything DIS/VAR to text as I remember the discussion. Also, the ?W option will not add a ".txt" file extension to the file which is the best of both worlds as well.

 

 

[+jedimatt42]

Not sector support, but direct-input and direct-output support will be added, to clarify. 

[+InsaneMultitasker]

4 hours ago, 9640News said:

@InsaneMultitasker, some background from yesterday's Zoom call.

thank you.  If I'm not working, I'll join one of the next few Zoom calls to listen in and/or clarify any points that I haven't articulated well in the forum (if needed).