Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

[Frank Schafer <frank.schafer@t-systems.cz>]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 20:38 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:31 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote:
> > Every file which comes from Sicromoft (R) Wondies (TM) has execute
> > permission set.
> > 
> > That's not an error. Due to Sicromoft this is a FEATURE ;-)))
> 
> That would be an explanation if all the files in the tarball had their
> execute bit set, but they don't!
> 
> never mind, we will whip these laby guys into decent gentoo shape LOL.
> 
> -- 
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> 

I got the tarball too meanwhile ... and Purebasic itself to have some
docs about that language.
The source isn't that big. Due to the clean structure of the sources
simply converting the BASIC syntax to a more *NIX like language
shouldn't be a that big task too.

I didn't look at the platforms Purebasic runs on but for these variables
'name.?' the '?' is a character defining the number of bytes the
variable occupies.
I don't have a clue how PB handles byte order ... not to mention 64 bit
systems.

If we help such guys into the FSF world we should wonder about
portability too, shouldn't we?

.02$
Frank
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