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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:01:17 -0700 (MST)
From: reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Subject: Re: New official web pages are up
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> >However, navigating is a bit slow because of the way almost everything is
> >in the "Lojban File Server Roadmap" page.
> 
> Suggestions?  Break up the page into smaller pieces?

Yes -- e.g. the descriptions for everything in the texts directory
(that is, texts, texts/ckafybarja, etc.) should go into a separate page.
The same goes for the other longish sections.

> >On the topic of software, would it be possible to post source code to some
> >or all of the programs listed, so that those of us who don't run Windows
> >won't be left out?
> 
> Actually, most of the stuff is MS-DOS Turbo-Pascal and not Windows (the 
> random sentence generator is in ancient Basic).  Cowan's parser is in 
> portable C, I believe, but Nora wrote the other stuff never expecting it to 
> be used other than on an MS-DOS machine.  LogFlash source is now up there, 
> and her other Turbo programs use about half of the LogFlash code as common 
> routines for screen management, so you would be advised to look and see 
> what you make of that code before tackling anything else.  So far, no one 
> has successfully ported LogFlash to any other system, though many have 
> tried; Turbo_Pascal is apparently quite unlike curses (that is the only 
> screen package that I KNOW has been tried).

Well, I'll play around with that when I get the time... see what I can do.

	co'omi'e xarmuj.