Re: New official web pages are up

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:41 PM 02/12/2000 -0700, reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>From: reciproc@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
>
> > Well I finished uploading the pages, and have done a cursory check, so I
> > invite the Lojban community to take a look at www.lojban.org
>
>.i'e Good work! :) I especially appreciate that the site immediately
>explains what Lojban is.

I figured that was needed, since we seem to be getting more and more 
accidental hits.

>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?

 > oh - the software/parser directory is not as advertised, and we need to
> > await John Cowan uploading the current files as stated in the roadmap -
> > what is actually there is the pre-refgrammar parser.  The stuff in the 
> main
> > software directory including the version of the parser there should be 
> current.
>
>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).

lojbab
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