Anyone want a hex-to-decimal converter written in IZL?
Douglas A Taylor
I've written a handy-dandy program in commercial IZL that converts
hexidecimal to decimal and back. It could be easily modified to do
arbitrary number base conversions (e.g., octal to binary). Is anyone
interested? I'd post it, but it's 90 lines of code, and I don't wanna
get flamed for wasting bandwidth.
While I'm on the subject, who else has bought the commercial version
of IZL? I haven't seen much discussion of it on this group. I got it
to handle some of the text-processing chores that I currently do with
awk. It looks like it'll be a nice little GEOS-based applications
development tool once the file- and string-handling bugs are fixed.
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The Ohio State University | Nothing unreal exists.
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Douglas A Taylor
Hatch Audrey <ha...@jove.acs.unt.edu> wrote:
>
>The Z in IZL stands for zoomer right? So this is something to run under
>the zoomer only? Does it require ownership of some form of IZL too? I'm
>sure it doesn't but you never know until you ask. [Snip]
IZL stands for Interpreted Zoomer Language. It runs under GEOS 2.x,
and it works just fine on desktop GEOS. Since the language is
interpreted rather than compiled, you do need your own copy of the IZL
interpreter to run IZL programs. You can get a free version of IZL
(version 0.something-or-other) from Shag's FTP site. You can buy the
commercial version of IZL (the current release is 1.0) for a little
under $50 US from
Feras Technologies
315 Delaware Ave.
Lansdale, PA 19446
The commercial version gets you file i/o (which I really wanted) and
some other nice things. Version 2.0 is rumored to come out in, umm,
early '95 I think. (Heh. By my calculations, that gives John until
June 30 to release it. :-)
Disclaimer: I don't have any relation with Feras Technologies, and I
don't know John Feras personally, although I have corresponded with
him through e-mail a little, and he seems like a nice enough guy. :-)
John Wiley
>What's the state of the
>zoomer these days, are more things being written for it than the desk
>top?
There's an interesting new UNIX comm program. Here's something about it
from the zoomer mailing list:
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jo...@silcom.com - John L. Wiley - Santa Barbara, CA
---begin excerpt---
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 95 16:36 PST
From: Keith Williamson <ke...@PrimeNet.Com>
Reply to: zoome...@grot.starconn.com
To: Multiple recipients of list <zoome...@grot.starconn.com>
Subject: Re: Announcing "xtoz"
Peter,
Thanks for the quick response.
> If it runs under SVR4 you should have no trouble porting to solaris;
> I think that the linux port should be high on your list too.
Yes, the Solaris port will be a no brainer. The trick will be to find
a Solaris box with a willing owner. There are several at work so I will
try to wheedle my way onto one of them. This week I will add some little
endian conditionals to the source and then perhaps subcontract the linux
port out to someone else.
> I have a couple of suggestions for features:
[snip]
> An automatic backup/restore facility would be very nice; most unix boxes
> have got a gig or two of disk hanging off them these days, and
> backing up the entire zoomer b: and c: contents into a directory on
> the unix host can't be much more difficult than what you already have
> going.
Yes, that's a great idea. I think I'll let that be a v1.1 issue though so
I don't hold this up too long.