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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce@liverpool.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Jigsaw, ITF and "Bad optional num"
In-Reply-To: nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk's message of 2 Nov 95 16:33:57 GMT
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>>>>> "Mathematical" == Mathematical Institute, (01865) 2-73525 <nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> I gather that Jigsaw does not work nicely on the ITF interpreter, or
> on ports derived from the ITF interpreter.  For this I apologise.
> As has been stated on the newsgroup already, this is actually a
> (forgiveable) bug in ITF, rather than a bug in Jigsaw.  The same
> problem arises with any game compiled with Library 5/12.

> Nevertheless I am producing a fresh copy of Jigsaw which avoids the
> problem (I hope).  Release 2 will be arriving soon for the benefit
> of anyone stuck with ITF.  (And I've already fixed 96 bugs in
> Release 1 which people have sent me - 94 of them tiny cosmetic
> defects.)

That's good news.  Can you rerelease Curses too?--that's hit by the
same problem.

> If you can change to Zip, you'll be doing yourself a favour!  But I
> realise not everyone can and, again, apologies.

Alas no.  One day, I'll write a Psion interface to Zip, but it'll be
some time.  I'm on the way to a Tcl/Tk embedding, however, which
promises a much better interface for users on machines with Tcl/Tk
(Unix boxes, PCs and Macs), but please don't ask when it might be
ready for public consumption...
-- 
Bruce                   Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation
bruce@liverpool.ac.uk   University of Liverpool
http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~bruce/

