From: barham@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Trivial thoughts on SAS/C 6.00
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:11:28 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Hiya all...

My uselessly trivial comments regarding SAS/C Version 6.00...

First let me note that I do intend getting hooked up to EMITS, and
posting problems there, but I KEEP LEAVING THE STUPID DETAILS AT HOME!

A few of bugs (more like minor irritations) I have found are perhaps
worth mentioning.  I know these wont make it into 6.01, as they're
pretty trivial, but seeing as everyone was in the "Have you seen the
latest SAS/C bug" mode, I thought I'd mention them...

1) This is the really really SUPER DOOPER trivial one.  When you open
   se (that editor of all editors... %^), it seems if you resize the
   window before all it's rendering has been done se it doesn't realise
   the fact and you end up with that horizontal bar that seperates the
   edit area from the area down the bottom (where you input stuff like
   what to search for etc) in a really wierd place.  I can't always get
   it to do this for me, but it happens with reasonable regularity.

2) Now the serious BUG TO END ALL BUGS - when the Global Optimiser is
   running, any warnings it puts up (like "removing dead assignment" or
   something) don't get sent to the message browser.  This is not a real
   buggy bug in the actual "bug" sense of the word, merely an enhancement
   request I suppose.

3) This is just an irritation - I am only running on a lowly 68000, and
   for some reason se gets REALLY SLOOOOOOW when you are adding or
   deleting characters in a line of which part is selected as a block
   - say the last 5 characters of the line have been selected as a block
   and you are deleting characters at the start, it happens way way way
   slow.  Version 5.1 seemed much faster to me.  Why is it so?  I know
   I could just get rid of the block or whatever, but it's a little
   irritating.

Well, now that I've wasted everyones time at SAS I'll just finished by
saying that I really love leaving the CLI way way way behind when it
comes to compiling.  Since I got version 6.00 I haven't touched the
CLI for compiling (although I came close to this with version 5.1).
It is a great package (though you should get a graphic artist to design
your default icons - want me to send you some good ones based very closely
on yours but tidied up in a huge way?), many very useful enhancments
(love GST's and hyperGST!).  Doug Walker and James Cooper are up there
with Dave Haynie (well, close) in my hero-worship list (I know they
aren't by ANY means the only ones working on the Amiga version of SAS/C,
I've seen the credits in the manual, but they hang around here and help
us useless dudes all the time like Dave does... or used to...)

End of rave,

Tim.

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| Tim Barham (t.barham@qut.edu.au)    |                              |
| Applications Programmer             | "Your so open-minded         |
| Computer Based Education            |  that your brain leaked out" |
| Queensland University of Technology |                              |
| Brisbane, Qld, Australia            |                              |
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