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Re: [zzdev] Re: :zz,unix: Probs running PC ZigZag from Linux
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- Subject: Re: [zzdev] Re: :zz,unix: Probs running PC ZigZag from Linux
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:17:27 +0900
- Cc: ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Okay, so the Windows version can't be recognized
automatically. So why can't we give the Windows version
a flag that the processor can check for?
ChrzT
At 06:58 AM 7/11/99 +1000, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 05:02:50AM +0900, Ted Nelson wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be possible to have a preprocessor that
>> checks the ZigZag file and fixes it for the current version,
>> no matter what machine or format it's in?
>>
>> I think we really need it. The non-interoperability
>> is already a great difficulty for me.
>
>For the Zigzag data, we already do this as much as possible. We can't
>convert from foreign formats where we don't have the program that
>created the file and thus don't know how to access it. That's why we
>have a standard text-based interchange format. I also can't see a way
>to have the program check itself for wrong line endings before it is
>run - you'd have to use another program to do that. That's why we have
>separate Unix and Windows versions of Zigzag. Welcome to the wonderful
>world of incompatibility that we all live in.
>
>Cheers,
> *** Xanni ***
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