 | | DOS Makelist (was Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)) —Steve Bliss
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| | | (...) Umm, that would be really great if you did that. We never came up with a replacement for James' original makelist.exe (which can only handle 1000 parts). How big would a distributable of your Perl-makelist be? And how easy would it be for (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: DOS Makelist (was Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Why the limitation on 1000 parts? Have all the makelist implementations shelled out to call sort.exe? I'm sure there's a quicksort call in the ANSI C libraries, and stl has some great capabilities for those of the C++ persuasion... (...) Well, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | Re: DOS Makelist (was Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp)) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) I'd guess the limitation is because James allocated a 1000-element array to hold the data lines. The problem I ran into when I tried a rewrite was I was using a shareware version of Basic, which wouldn't support the memory usage I needed, so I (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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