Subj : Re: Mystic on FreeBSD?
To   : g00r00
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sun Mar 08 2020 04:48 pm

-=> On 03-07-20 17:56, g00r00 wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Hmm, Mystic 1.12 on OS/2, now I'd consider moving my Mystic system to
 TL> OS/2 for that, only issue would be how to make it work on IPv6, since
 TL> that's something OS/2 (and ArcaOS) lacks, but apparently others have
 TL> worked that out.

 g0> I'm not sure how that would work.  I would guess you'd have to use a
 g0> separate system that would do IPV6 but trick the application into
 g0> thinking its IPV4.

Yeah I can't recall how it was done, but someone did claim to have an OS/2
system that could be reached by IPv6 and also connect to IPv6 hosts.

 g0> I did spend a couple of hours porting some code to OS/2 just to play
 g0> around and it was frustrating at times because of the lack of API
 g0> documentation or examples.

Hmm, yeah, that would make it tough. :/

 g0> I did manage to get Mystic's MPL script compiler ported though (I
 g0> figured that was the easiest to get done so I started there).  A little
 g0> teaser! :)

Might as well start with the low hanging fruit and work from there. ;)

 g0> [C:\code\mystic]mplc

 g0> Mystic MPL Compiler v1.12 A46 (OS2/32 2020/03/07 05:23:49)
 g0> Copyright (C) 1997-2020 By James Coyle.  All Rights Reserved.

 g0> MPLC [path/file] : Compile one script [path/file]
 g0> MPLC -ALL        : Compile all scripts in current directory and
 g0> subdirectories MPLC -C          : Compile all scripts in current
 g0> directory MPLC -P [path]   : Compile all scripts in [path]
 g0> MPLC -R [path]   : Compile all scripts in [path] and its subdirectories
 g0> MPLC -T          : Compile all scripts in Themes directory
 g0> MPLC -F [mask]   : Compile all scripts matching [mask] in Themes
 g0> directory

Cool! :)


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