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Re: Dumpsplit for new format???

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wed Dec 27 11:22:40 1995 )

Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 09:11:00 +0000 ()
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: coldstuff@tombstone.sunrem.com
In-Reply-To: <199512270212.SAA00856@asparagus.tenetwork.com>

On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, Jeff Kesselman wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> The new format looks great and dbconv looks very useful BUT dumpsplit 
> wont understand the output of dbconv.  Has anyone writtena new 
> dumpsplit to complete the conversion pathway?  Splitting by hand may 
> be as much of a pain to me as just hand re-coding my objects....
> 
> Thanks

Not yet, although its in the pipeworks.  My whole schedule is shifted by 
a week because I forgot that I was moving this week (pshaw, little things).

The new compiler, btw, will handle \ newline escapes for all but methods, 
i.e.:

object $foo;
new var boo = [1, 2, 3, 4,\
               5, 6, 7, 8];

-Brandon