Re: SixPacks mods for GCIC users

"paoloG" <[email protected]> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:30:28 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.vm
Message-ID <[email protected]>




--- In [email protected], "Rocky" <rocsystems@...> wrote:
>
> Paul just out of curiosity did you chek the path length of EDIT in VM/SP
> 

Yes; the path length is of about 400k instructions (I guess that XEDIT
doesn't read all the file in memory).

> > I noticed that starting BROWSE in GCIC has a path lentgh of about
> > > 60M instructions, while the BROWSE of VM/SP has a 100k instructions
> > > path length.
> 
> I definitelty agree that changing the logic for the BROWSE makes a lot of
> sense.
> I will take care of that. (send me your routine and I'll use it as a base).

Just sent ;-)

> I have few other small fixes for the next release as well
> ( like a copyright notice that everybody says I need -? and a fix to the
> IND$FILE)
>
 
I couldn't care less for copyright notice ;-)

> EDIT has other issuesÂ…
> 
> If you remember back in the beginning when I started,  I said that I would
> do the Browse first so I could develop the routines easier.
> This is a case where the "BROWSE"  and "EDIT"  LOGIC should definitely be
> diferent.
> 
> PS:
>  > Hoping this may be useful to the developer to improve an already
> > > fantastic program
> 
> Keep those KUDO's coming. Gives me energy in the morning. ?
> Glad to see that you are using it and are not having too many issues.
> 
 I used it to do some mods to CMS of VM/370 (module DMSINA) to correct a malfunction (alignment error) in interpreting abbreviated CMS commands (only on ARM processors - so not of great interest for many people ;-)
 
> Roc
>
 BFN

Paul