MausNet has brought news of a few recent ports to the QL. Below are the details:
CRON – Elik Slagter has written a version of Cron, the Unix Execute-at-a-certain-time program. Cron is a process that runs in the background and will execute a particular program at a described time. The crontab file tells Cron what program to execute and when to do it. The complete source code has been posted to MausNet and may be available at some archive site.
GNU-Awk – Dirk Steinkopf has ported GNU Awk 2.14 to the QL. The port does not fully work due to some bugs still in the C68 library but Dirk says that 99% of the functions of AWK work and are usable. Dirk did not mention the availability of the program.
XLISP – Richard Zidlicky has ported XLISP21D (XLISP Plus) to the QL. “It is nearly Common Lisp (complex and ratio nums, squence fn’s, defstruct, format, defvar, defconstant, image save/restore..). I have implemented pretty good QDOS support (breaks, line editing, graphics, textpos’ing and stackchecking). It compiles with C68 v2.05 or 3.05. The _exe is about 173K big with a few options turned off, so 640K is the absolute minimum (for compiling a Trumpcard is the minimum), the speed is quite acceptable.” Once unpacked, the package takes 1 disk for the executables, 1 disk for source code and 1 disk for the documentation.
Richard has put the source code and executable on sabrina.unipd.dei.it so it is available via Anon-FTP. I have down loaded a copy, but the executable has lost it’s header information so the QL returns “bad parameter” when I try to execute it. I don’t have enough memory to do a recompile. If anybody has the executable, can they HAR it and put it on sabrina, or send it to me on disk?