A brief reply. I don't know much about windows -- and I am late for
something yet again!
> From: David A Stevenson <david@cad.strath.ac.uk>
>
> hi there,
>
> I worked with lovely POP11 years ago on our trusty old Sun Unix machines,
which you can now get from
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
> but was called in today to help a colleague who was having problems
> loading a file into POP11 running on a PC under Windows 2000
> ... the problem itself was easily fixed (an old "define ... end;"
> piece of code), but while working on it I noticed that if I typed e.g.
>
> : help help
>
> into the pop11 window, it threw up an error, complaining that it didn't
> recognise the terminal type ... hmm ...
>
> ... is this something that can be fixed e.g. by putting a clever line into
> one's init.p file, or is there a fundamental problem there with PCs?
There are two versions of windows poplog on the abvoe freepoplog site.
The older one V15.5 includes a setup.exe which creates a desktop
shortcut which can be used to invoke pop11 inside a versio of Ved,
which can then switch in and out of split screen mode using ESC w.
The newer one V15.53 does not have that set up.
So it depends which version your colleague is using.
It would be very nice if some clever windows programmer could make the
newer version work like the old one.
The new one also includes all system sources. the old one was prepared
some years ago for students at Sussex, and kindly provided by
Robert Duncan.
The new version is available here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/winpop/
The site is a bit of a mess and one day, maybe, I'll find a way to
provide better structure.
Better still, persuade your colleague to switch to linux, and watch
pop11, Xved and everything else really take off.
Aaron
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