Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation, & flame to C-A Message-ID: <1962@tekgvs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 12:34:24 EST Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1962 Posted: Fri Dec 19 12:34:24 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 08:43:11 EST References: <8612152348.AA29410@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <1135@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 50 In article <1135@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) writes: >In article <8612152348.AA29410@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: >> >> NOW LOOK C-A, I'VE ENOUGH OF THIS SH#$%%T. WILL YOU *PLEASE* POST >>DOCUMENTATION ON BCPL STARTUP... >> -Matt > > I've had more than enough of your SCREAMING and CURSING. > > You act like we're hoarding some Magic Document that would endow the >reader with Instant Knowledge of the Glorious Inner Secrets of AmigaDOS. Well, maybe not a "reader" in general, but Matt seems to be a cut above the average Amiga user! > > Well Matt, there is no magic document. I wish there was. Somebody screwed up the contract with the AmigaDos writers :-) > What we have is the AmigaDOS source code. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. I'm glad somebody has it! > > BCPL is a bit like C, and it is possible to decipher and even >make changes to localized portions of the code. But when you >start to trace code that interfaces with the private global functions >via run-time linkin... > > So, you can either pay Tim King to reveal the inner secrets, (see comment on contracts, above) >or wait until someone here has time to decipher a very large and >very complex program that jumps all over the place. sounds like a good job for a computer... >carolyn Carolyn - do you really get paid to take all this abuse? CBM probably doesn't realize the bargain they're getting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey everybody: Have a [pick the greeting of your choice:] Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! (I hope I spelled it correctly) Great Vavation! keith