From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_SPAM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1032a1,1a91c683b7703121 X-Google-Attributes: gid1032a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f0e2b9422a6e2f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Sven Utcke Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <36e959b2.0@pfaff.ethz.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454277948 References: <7bv5nl$8vc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7c5up1$gf7$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <7c8tir$nt0$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <7ca3gl$bp8$1@news.interlog.com> X-Trace: 12 Mar 1999 19:15:14 +0100, zinal-delek-fast.ee.ethz.ch Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.programming.literate Originator: neeri@zinal.ee.ethz.ch Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" writes: > unlikely such as C:\GNAT\LIB\MING32XYZ\3.2.1 added to it; however, MS-DOS > has always had a severe limit on the amount of memory it allows for > environment variables -- including PATH -- so I altered AUTOEXEC.BAT as > needed, but my PATH was only getting partially set, because Windows (in DOS > mode) was running out of environment variable memory (with my so > far?); The latest DOS I used was 5.0, in which you had both a limit on the amount of memory reserved for environment variables (which could be increased by setting an argument to command.com, look there), and a 128 (127?) character-limit for the path. There were tools to get a longer path, but you did not have any guarantee that programs would interpret that path correctly. > job providing upward compatibility); but you (almost) never get any of this > kind of silliness with the UNIX-based operating systems; I'm a great critic > of UNIX, but this is one of the things UNIX got really right from the start Actually they didn't. It's just that the limit is 1024 characters (at least under IRIX 6.3), so you're less likely to be bitten. Not that this has anything to do with litprog... Sven PS: to make this somewhat more relevant to litprog, I would strongly urge you to try one of the language-independent tools. I myself am using FWEB, which I like; but if I were starting all over again I would probably go for noweb, which is somewhat more powerfull (although more complicated to setup and use, quite the opposite of what Norman envisioned). -- _ _ Lehrstuhl fuer Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung | |_ __ | |__ Sven Utcke | | ' \| '_ \ phone: +49 761 203 8274 Am Flughafen 17 |_|_|_|_|_.__/ fax : +49 761 203 8262 79110 Freiburg i. Brsg. mailto:utcke@informatik.uni-freiburg.de www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke