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Re: ColdC Reference Manual

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Nov 27 23:52:07 1999 )

From: Jeff Kesselman <Jeffrey.Kesselman@eng.sun.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:41:44 -0700
To: <coldstuff@cold.org>
Reply-To: coldstuff@cold.org

buf_to_str is a single string covnersion.
buf_to_strings creates an array of strings based on a delimiter, as I recall.

As far as I know there has never been much of any documentation fo the native interface which, frankly,
is weak as hell.  I learned it frome xaminign the sourc code but ther are a LOT
of caveats (liek the agfct that yopu cant call back INTO the vm from outside.)

>Oh, and I also added an Index for key terminology and all the functions.
>
>ian
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Ian Klimon, Esq. 
>  To: coldstuff@cold.org 
>  Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 6:02 PM
>  Subject: ColdC Reference Manual
>
>
>  I'm just wrapping up my conversion of the ColdC Reference Manual into 
>Word2k format (Word97 shares the same format).  I've added headings, 
>footnotes where appropriate, cleaned up the spelling and grammar, tried 
>to standardized usage of italics/bold and set the document up to be 
>printed so that it could be then bound double-sided to save space/paper, 
>etc. 
>   
>  I've run into three problems:
>
>  The missing section on Textdump Structure
>  The missing section of Native Method Reference
>  and unless I'm missing something, buf_to_str and buf_to_strings share 
>the exact same description (which I believe, belongs to buf_to_strings)
>
>  I'm more than happy to share what I've completed with anyone 
>interested, or even have the doc posted on the cold.org site if that's a 
>reasonable thing to do.
>
>  ian
>  aephirsden.com