Forwarded message

[Tony van der Hoff]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, at 14:41:47, Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-
net.demon.co.uk> wrote on the subject "Forwarded message":

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>Tony,
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>Sorry to bother you by e-mail, but I seem to be having problems subscribing
>to the OSLib mailing lists from my work account. Can you confirm that I
>should send an e-mail to 'oslib-user-subscribe.compton.nu' - without any @
>symbol?
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Yes, indeed, the web site is wrong. I fixed it a few weeks ago, but was
going to leave the upload 'till the next OSLib release. I guess I'd
better do it sooner ;-)

As you will by now have guessed, the correct address is 
oslib-user-subscribe at compton.nu.

I have forwarded your comments to the list, to get any other reaction.

>Moving on to the main reason for this e-mail, I have found a fault in the
>OSLibSupport package. The Events/c/Tbevent file has the function '
>tbevent_deregister_toolbox_handler' in it, which starts:
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<snip code>
well, indeed, it does look wrong; thanks for pointing it out. I'm not
sure of the origins of this module, but I believe it was a parallel
development with Acorn's eventlib. Interesting...
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>Additionally, unlike the clean, type checked OSLib, OSLibSupport could do
>with it being made type safe and values
>defined for use instead of hard coded integers, for example in place of the
> rather ugly -1 in the code above.

Yes, good idea. This again shows the origin of this module. I guess no-
one thought it worth the bother of changing it. If it ain't broke...

>I realise that the library works as it is and that this would involve
>additional work. I assume that OSLibSupport is
>heavily used, given that it works so easily with OSLib, and was rather
>surprised that the fault I found hadn't been
>discovered earlier.
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OSLibSupport was only fairly recently (Feb 2000) made generally
available with OSLib. Whilst I used its predecessor in-house, that was
with Acorn's EventLib. I suspect others did the same, and that is
causing some inertia to change. However, I believe it is now beginning
to appear in applications.

>Anyway, many thanks for supporting OSLib and its supporting libraries. It
>is certainly the most useful mechanism for
>accessing the OS, and I hope that my raher small contribution helps.
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Thanks for your help, Dave

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