[iyonix-support] Re: !Jiten

  • From: Nick Roberts <tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:02:40 +0100

In message <cfc6db444e.pittdj+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
       David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <5f49a2444e.tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Nick Roberts <tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >In message <09f49a444e.pittdj+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >       David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> In message <77566b444e.tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>           Nick Roberts <tigger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Has anyone managed to get !Jiten running on an Iyonix - either
> >> > natively or under Aemulor? Or an equivalent Japanese/English
> >> > dictionary?
> >> >
> >> 
> >> !Jiten 3.02 did not run on OS4.04 here :-
> >
> >I wasn't aware of that - it works fine under 4.02
> 
> I believe I am missing some internal files. Edict reports as invalid
> for a start.

Try

  http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/#misc_r

and click on the JitenF.zip link. This is a version of !Jiten with
Edict already present.

> >
> >>  http://homepages.which.net/~philip.murray-pearce/progs.htm
> >> 
> >> The error is :-
> >> 
> >> Error from Jiten: Handle is either illegal or has been closed (Error
> >> code 222 at line 6000)
> >
> >Unfortunately, on the Iyonix (under Aemulor) it doesn't fail so
> >gracefully - I get an "Unknown or missing variable at line 7300"
> >followed by a complete machine freeze.
> 
> Certainly does, and how. The extracted BASIC running in 32bit space
> does much the same! Line 7300 is calling some machine code. So far I
> do not see anything wrong with that code. I must be missing
> something.

You seem to have got further than I have.

I might try emailing the author and seeing if he is willing to let me
have the uncrunched source code so I can update it for the Iyonix.

-- 
Nick Roberts           tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk           

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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