On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:40:28 -0800 Kirk Wallace <kwall...@wallacecompany.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 11:22 -0800, dave wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:00:59 -0600 > > Stuart Stevenson <stus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am an unashamed proponent of APT so take these comments in that > > > light. > > < massive snip> > > > > I can understand. You are good at it and you also have a very > > expensive and well supported version. > > > > I don't believe that is true of the conversion of APT from FORTRAN > > to the present code. It is very difficult to learn to use a package > > when there is no way to discern between bugs ( inadvertently > > introduced in translation) and user mistakes. I'm wondering if it > > might not be better to use the original code and run under a 360 > > emulator. Slow and sure (?) would be much better than fast and not > > so sure. I've had a simple move from start point to a line end up > > nowhere near the line. > > > > Practical? > > > > I did get a simple square to work but try something a bit more > > complicated and the results are not so good. ;-( > > > Dave > > I'm a little confused, my understanding is that there are two linux > APT packages. One that was started from scratch, in C, is not > finished and stalled, Aptos? The other in Fortran or rather based on, > and sorta works, Apt360? Well, looking a sourceforge, aptos includes vapt the visual interface but the core package is still apt360-1.0.1. not something different as far as I can tell. FORTRAN AND .asm translated to C. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users