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| From | Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release |
| Date | 2025-10-07 23:58 +0100 |
| Organization | Not very much |
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On 07/10/2025 17:16, bart wrote:
> The problem was with 'man' (and the contents of the A68G manual which
> chose those text colours), in setting a text foreground colour [...].
The "a68g" manual entry does nothing at all to choose text or
any other colours. On my system "man" also does nothing to choose or
set colours. If you get anything different from the colours you have
chosen for foreground and background, it's nothing at all to do with
A68G [I've checked on my system] and probably not to do with "man" [I
don't have source for "man" so can't check in detail]. Look elsewhere
for your bug.
>> If you don't want to run the program, use the "--check" or
>> "--no-run" option. It's all in the manual [and the guide].
> It shouldn't need those extra options; it should just do the most
> obvious thing without being told.
It is doing the most obvious thing. You asked "a68g" to give
you a program listing; you didn't tell it that you didn't want to
run the program. You got the behaviour I would expect [never having
myself used either of those options].
> Or more importantly, without users
> have to hunt across multiple different sources (website, PDF, 'man',
> --help) which all seem to give conflicting info.
AFAIK, the info is the same in all those sources, and any one
of them will tell you what to do to compile the source, to rerun without
re-compiling [if possible], to get a program listing, and to avoid the
actual running of the program. The only difference there is expected
to be is whether the info is as concise as possible, or more complete,
or complete with examples. If you find an actual inconsistency, then
of course it's a bug and should be reported to Marcel. Experienced
Linux users are surely familiar with differing uses of "man", "--help"
and web sites to get information and help?
--
Andy Walker, Nottingham.
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Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-06 11:03 +0100
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-06 22:01 +0000
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Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-13 23:13 +0100
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Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-10-03 22:24 +0000
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-04 03:39 +0000
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-04 12:19 +0100
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 14:16 +0200
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-04 21:05 +0000
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-05 01:40 +0100
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-05 03:13 +0000
Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-10-05 01:29 +0000
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Re: Algol 68 / Genie - new release Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-07 22:09 +0000
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Re: Algol 68 - formatting with fixed point format Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2025-09-01 16:13 +0100
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Re: Algol 68 - formatting with fixed point format Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-24 02:47 +0000
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