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gregben

Happy New Year! I just downloaded and built version 9.0.0 on Solaris 8 and these are a few thoughts. # Building under Linux, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives. create make targets 'check' and 'test' which are synonyms and run the qa-* scripts. The qa-* scripts along with any related information sh...

gregben

The following code: (device (open "myfile" "a")) (print "This goes in myfile") (close (device)) (exit) fails with: value expected : (open "myfile" "a") when the file "myfile" doesn't exist. If you use (on Unix): #touch myfile And rerun the code above, it works as expected. I would expect that a file...

gregben

The following example in the documentation is incorrect: (device (open "myfile" "write")) => 5 (print "This goes in myfile") => "This goes in myfile.dat" (close (device)) => true It should be: (device (open "myfile" "write")) => 5 (print "This goes in myfile") => "This goes in myfile" (close (device...

gregben

Hilarious!

I especially liked the slider controls and the verbosity=10
comments.

Thank you for the link!

gregben

A couple of comments on the new layout: 1) I prefer web pages that make full use of the available screen width, generally by using three columns. The laptop I use to read the forum is 1280 x 800 pixels so it has a lot of width but not so much height. This makes for a lot of vertical scrolling especi...

gregben

I'm trying to write a program in Newlisp that runs under Sun Solaris and: 1) Makes a list of md5 signatures of all files in /usr/bin. 2) Sends sections "chunks" of the signature list to a special web page operated by Sun Microsystems for checking against a database of known-good signatures. 3) Searc...

gregben

you forgot Ruby.

gregben

It ain't 'ewLISP' my friend, it's 'NewLISP'. Seriously though, I just compiled NewLISP v 8.4.0 under Sun Sparc Solaris 8 and noticed the inital 'N' was missing from the output of 'newlisp -h'. Rather than search through the source, I thought I'd let you all take a look... ca1$ ./newlisp -h ewLISP v....

gregben

Thanks, Lutz.

It would be nice to have "see also (exec)"
in the manual entries for (!) and (process).

gregben

Is there an easy way to capture the stdout (and stderr) output of an external command run using (!) without using files? I'd like to be able to do something like: (set 'file04 (! "ls -l | grep 2004")) and have the result be the string spit out by grep instead of the return code as (!) does now. Perh...

gregben

Not that it helps, but I tried (process "newlisp") under Solaris 8 and got
three processes too.

gregben

Thanks, Lutz for all your feedback. :-)

Here's a little function I wrote that is sort of useful
without using regex or replace.

#!/usr/bin/newlisp

(define (initial-capital str)
(nth-set 0 str (upper-case (nth 0 str)))
str
)

(println (initial-capital "abc"))
(exit)

gregben

Try this in perl: #!/usr/bin/perl $a = "aaa"; $a =~ s/^\w/x/; print "\$a=$a\n"; You will get $a="xaa". This is correct in Perl, and is what I want newLisp to do. To anyone who's interested, the pattern /^\w/ means match any single "word" character at the beginning of the string. This is the correct ...

gregben

I'm trying to replace the initial character of a string (actually, I'm trying to do something more complex, but this is the gist of it). I tried the following under newLisp 8.2.0 (Sparc Solaris 8) and got the following: > (replace "a" "aaa" (upper-case $0) 0) "AAA" > (replace "^a" "aaa" (upper-case ...

gregben

It would be nice to have a 'make test' or 'make check' option after running 'make' when building Newlisp. It could help speed debugging on "non-supported" platforms like Solaris. I'm willing to be an "official" Solaris tester if this would help. I'm thinking of something along the lines of the test ...

gregben

From inside a script or the Newlisp shell, this hangs: (get-url "http://www.nuevatec.com") But using curl at the login shell comes back instantly (within 250ms): ca1$ curl http://www.nuevatec.com <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>NUEVATEC Internatio...

gregben

On Solaris 5.9 nanosleep() is available, use the following changes in the makefile: in CFLAGS include -DNANOSLEEP CFLAGS = -Wall -pedantic -Wno-uninitialized -c -O2 -g -DNANOSLEEP -DSOLARIS -DOPSYS=4 in the compile line include the library -lrt $(CC) $(OBJS) -g -lm -ldl -lrt -lsocket -lnsl -o newli...

gregben

I'm running Newlisp on Solaris 8 and when I run the following program: #!/usr/local/bin/newlisp # # Demonstrate bug in (sleep) on Solaris 8 (println "\n(sleep 999) interval is too short.") (dotimes (i 10) (println (format "%02d " i) (date (apply date-value (now)))) (sleep 999) ) (println "\n(sleep 1...

gregben

I tried the following using 7.5.0 on both Solaris and WIN32: > (set 'a 3) 3 > (dec 'a) 2 > (constant 'a) 2 > (dec 'a) 1 > (set 'a 5) symbol is protected in function set : a > a 1 It appears that the (constant 'a) call only protects against (set) but not (dec) or (inc) for that matter. This doesn't c...

gregben

Just downloaded and installed newlisp 7.5.0 (WIN 32) The install process does not, but in my opinion should, create the C:\temp directory if it doesn't already exist. Alternatively, the installer could provide a dialog to choose the temp directory location right after asking for the main installatio...

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comments on building newLISP on Solaris and Linux

(open "myfile" "a") doesn't work as expe

documentation fix: (device)

my 2 cents

Please critique: web interaction script

Initial "N" missing for 'newlisp -h' version 8.4.0

How to capture output from (!) ?

(replace) doesn't seem to work with "^".

How about a test suite?

(get-url) doesn't work for me on Solaris 8

Bug in (sleep) on Solaris 8 (Newlisp v8.1.0)

(constant 'x) broken?

Installation process impressions