Subject: Bill Haygood's pdp8 emulator

From: [email-masked] (Bill Haygood)
Date: 26 Dec 1993 06:57:16 GMT

My pdp8 emulator recently made available via ftp from sunsite has some
problems which do not manifest themselves on my Amiga implementation.
Bob Harper and Steve Chamberlain have actually got it up and (flakily)
running on their machines.  I think the problems probably tracable to
some kind of portability issue.  Bob Supnik at DEC pointed out several
actual misimplementations in the EAE emulator and non-portable code
in the ASR & LSR functions.  Bob Harper thinks, and I agree, that
problems exist in the RK8E emulator code.  Needless to say, I find it
embarassing to see the emulator running on my Amiga as solid as a rock
and yet so flaky on other machines.  When I bring it up on the BBS's
UNIX system that I use, it runs quite flaky there, also.  I could not
even delete an OS/8 file.

I will send new sources to Charles Lasner for anon-ftp on sunsite as 
soon as I can get the bugs fixed.  I appreciate your patience.

--
Bill Haygood

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From: [email-masked] (Ethan Dicks)
Date: 27 Dec 1993 15:35:26 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Bill Haygood <[email-masked]> wrote:
>problems which do not manifest themselves on my Amiga implementation...

>soon as I can get the bugs fixed.  I appreciate your patience.

I have a request... PKware has a PKZIP for the Amiga (PKAZIP).  It cannot
unpack PKZIP 2.0 format files.  Please do not pack archives for the Amiga that 
cannot be unpacked natively.  I had to hump the file around to unpack it.
Lha or Lharc are much more common.  Hell, I'd prefer .tar.Z to a 2.0 .zip
file... at least I can unpack it without stooping to a DOS box.

Thanks,
-ethan

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: 28 Dec 1993 02:58:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>file... at least I can unpack it without stooping to a DOS box.

Two responses to two posters:

To Bill Haygood:

What version of what ZIP utility created the copy given to me?  I cannot
create a copy quite so compressed using available zip 1.9 or PKZIP 2.04g. 
Also, unzip (version? comparable to zip 1.9) cannot unzip it, but -v can
view it at least.  2.04g has no problems with it, but cannot quite
recreate something that tight, etc.

To Ethan Dicks:

What's the best PKZIP version Amiga can handle?  I could for example use
PC PKZIP 1.10 if it'll help, etc.

Anyone:

Is pkz204g.exe the best available?

cjl

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From: [email-masked] (Ethan Dicks)
Date: 29 Dec 1993 02:47:09 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Charles Lasner <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>unpack PKZIP 2.0 format files...

>PC PKZIP 1.10 if it'll help, etc.

If you want to use ZIP, PC PKZIP 1.10 should be just fine.  Zoo, arc,
lharc and lha are also dandy.

Thanks,
-ethan