From rpb@PANIX.COM Fri Jul 30 01:38:27 1993 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Fri, 30 Jul 1993 01:38:25 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1404; Fri, 30 Jul 93 01:37:12 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6943; Fri, 30 Jul 1993 01:37:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 01:36:43 -0400 Reply-To: Rob Brady Sender: Lojban list From: Rob Brady Subject: real life X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: Message-ID: Other than going to the periodontist this is what I do all day, which might shed light on my chagrin about the lack of the jargon words which I use all day and have different and precise meanings (such as the difference between a label, a variable, and an address; all of whihch I pondered over for the tanru for 'variable') As can be seen, my grammar needs work le pareze moi lerfu cu jimte minde ciske le skama se minde ci'e la mysydos 127 characters is the limit of the command line (writing) within the computer command interpreter (command taker) of MS-DOS. .i mi na galfi le lo''u "PATH" le'u skama seminde cenba vamji le clani .au I cannot modify the PATH computer environment variable (computer command-taker varying value) to be as long as I would like. .i mi ja'e finti tutci samruc le danfu be le nabmi I therefore create a utility (tool) program to resolve the problem. .i ra goi pilno le minde ciske le jmina be le lo'u "PATH" le'u It (the tool program, which I then attempt to assign to 'da') Uses the command line to add to the PATH. .i da pilno le na skicu ca'i la .maikrosoft skama pruce dicra It uses a Microsoft undocumented (undescribed) processor interrupt .i le morji judri be leI seminde cenba vamji jalge le dicra The memory address of the environment (command interpreter's variables) is returned by the iNterrupt. .ije da galfi le morji seva'u le cenba vamji And the program can modify the memory containing the variables. (one more reAson to despise DOS) -- Rob Brady rpb@panix.com Sin mar a bhfuil an sce'al