Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-15 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > >I've implemented a few new features. First off, strdup() > isn't abused anymore so the program should run much smoother and > smaller, as well as more quickly. Secondly, I have (thanks in > part to Alfred Perlstein) added both case-i

Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-15 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > >I've implemented a few new features. First off, strdup() > isn't abused anymore so the program should run much smoother and > smaller, as well as more quickly. Secondly, I have (thanks in > part to Alfred Perlstein) added both case-

Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:00:04 EST, Chris Costello wrote: >As usual, it's at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz Can I suggest that you make a port of your little project so that you don't have to announce updates to hackers every few days? Those who're interested will see CVS commit m

Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-12 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:00:04 EST, Chris Costello wrote: >As usual, it's at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz Can I suggest that you make a port of your little project so that you don't have to announce updates to hackers every few days? Those who're interested will see CVS commit

Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
I've implemented a few new features. First off, strdup() isn't abused anymore so the program should run much smoother and smaller, as well as more quickly. Secondly, I have (thanks in part to Alfred Perlstein) added both case-insensitive searches (-i) and local FAQ search (can be overridden w

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > >I can manage C code much better than I can manage Perl code > > > and C is faster than Perl. > > > > Trying to start ANOTHER holy war? :) > >I meant that you don't have to compile/interpret/wh

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >I can manage C code much better than I can manage Perl code > > and C is faster than Perl. > > Trying to start ANOTHER holy war? :) I meant that you don't have to compile/interpret/whatever-you-wanna-call-it with compiled C code as you do wi

Re: rtfm rewritten in C (updated)

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
I've implemented a few new features. First off, strdup() isn't abused anymore so the program should run much smoother and smaller, as well as more quickly. Secondly, I have (thanks in part to Alfred Perlstein) added both case-insensitive searches (-i) and local FAQ search (can be overridden

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > >I can manage C code much better than I can manage Perl code > > > and C is faster than Perl. > > > > Trying to start ANOTHER holy war? :) > >I meant that you don't have to compile/interpret/w

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >I can manage C code much better than I can manage Perl code > > and C is faster than Perl. > > Trying to start ANOTHER holy war? :) I meant that you don't have to compile/interpret/whatever-you-wanna-call-it with compiled C code as you do w

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > > > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz > >

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > > > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz > > What was the advantage of rewriting it in C? I c

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz What was the advantage of rewriting it in C? -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of m

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >It still needs decent case-insensitivity code, and as far as I > know, there's no case-insensitive strstr, but I might attempt to > work on one. this is done: http://big.endian.org/~bright/freebsd/rtfm/rtfm.c To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord.

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > > > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz >

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Chris Costello
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > > > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz > > What was the advantage of rewriting it in C? I

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 11:45:39PM -0500, Chris Costello wrote: > >So far, it seems the functionality is the same. A tarball > is availible at http://www.calldei.com/~chris/rtfm.tar.gz What was the advantage of rewriting it in C? -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of

Re: rtfm rewritten in C

1999-07-11 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: >It still needs decent case-insensitivity code, and as far as I > know, there's no case-insensitive strstr, but I might attempt to > work on one. this is done: http://big.endian.org/~bright/freebsd/rtfm/rtfm.c To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL