X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,177ace2b2aa5037a X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: CJRandall Subject: Re: asc-tool.exe (asciitool.c for dos) [1/2] Date: 1998/08/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 378656729 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 References: <897798559.579157@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <35c943a4.76785@news.southern.co.nz> <902395813.903508@mnementh.southern.co.nz> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 902444760 nnrp-01:9512 NO-IDENT shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation In article <902395813.903508@mnementh.southern.co.nz>, Colin Douthwaite writes >CJRandall wrote: > >> here is the straight and raw output from DJGPP of the file >> asciitool.c ASC-TOOL.EXE 64.335 Kb with -O optimisation >> option set during compile. alas it is not going to perform quite as >> well without the 'tr' utility. >> as it is..... <<===== becomes =====<< > >Can that be fixed to make it do a perfect reversal? [][ i'm currently trying to make a first-fit compile of tr.c the unix [][ character translation tool......that'll fix it. [][ the above example could be fixed using 'sed' but it wouldn't work [][ on complex pics > > > >I uudecoded it OK to yield the executable ASC-TOOL.EXE size 39690Kb. > [][ thats the wrong file size! Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is 386D-18FD Directory of C:\usr\colin\download ASCIIT~1 TGZ 3,149 08-03-98 7:53p asciitools.tgz ASCIIT~1 TXT 14,840 08-03-98 7:54p asciitools.txt ASC-TOOL EXE 64,335 08-06-98 8:37p Asc-tool.exe 3 file(s) 82,324 bytes 0 dir(s) 293,502,976 bytes free [][ i also downloaded and uudecoded the file as shown above.... [][ .... tested it too and it worked ok. >When I run it I get the error message " Load error: no DPMI " which >conveys nothing to me but probably has something to do with the [snip] >Now I don't have an executable named CWSDPMI.EXE...do you? [][ no, me neither! try downloading it again ... and retry. [][ if you still get errors i'll pklite it then uuencode it and [][ try sending it as one chunk. [][ see yuz [][ colin -- ( () /_ / /\) _/ /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_ CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk