Re: Lout 3.35 on DOS (DJGPP)

[Kein-Hong Man]

Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Kein-Hong Man wrote:
>
> > I've just built Lout-3.35 using the changes I made to the 3.28
> > version I released on the DJGPP site, builds fine on gcc-3.2.2
> > with less warnings than experienced by Robert. My DJGPP setup is
>
> 1) There's a bug in the DJGPP port, because it's not a good idea to set
> `stdout' to binary mode, when not redirected to a file. I already know,
> how to fix that.

I guess. Always did it the lout all > *.ps way, so didn't notice 
that. This is an old issue, so if you have the last word on it, I 
think you should send a patch for inclusion into the mainline.

> 2a) Did you succeed in building `doc/desing' in plain DOS?

Yeah, I did the 4 docs later... all okay except.. see below.

> 2b) In a DOS window?

Yep. I set LOUTLIB and PATH as usual. Nothing unusual except for:

lout filter file "lout3" (from "prg_opti" line 63, from "prg" line 
139, from "all" line 48):
    1,27: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
    1,66: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
    6,39: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
    7,54: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
    8,80: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
   8,126: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)
    9,54: @Char dropped (character "" unknown in font Symbol Base)

This shows up as a glitch on the respective page.

> > As for the strange behaviour, I haven't done a lot of testing on
> > the DJGPP platform for Lout, but in the past, I managed to build
> > the usual 4 documents only after increasing the minimum stack size
> > using stubedit. As for the exact reasons, I have no idea.
>
> I used `stubedit', but it didn't help. (Running in a Windows 2000 DOS
> window.)

My old DOS makefile automatically did stubedit, so I haven't 
tested without it. But I did not experience any crashes while 
doing the usual lout all > *.ps. No idea about other usage. I am 
running XP HOME SP2.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia