Re: nfbtrans conversion

  • From: Steve Jacobson <steve.jacobson@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:54:19 -0500

Tyler,

Thank you for taking a crack at this.  Did you find you had to do
anything with pointers?  

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:38:29 -0600
"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jamal:
> Thanks for that. I threw nfbtrans.exe into the edsharp directory under 
> nfbtrans and off it went. Converted perfectly.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10204868/NFBTR774.7z
> There is the link for the new archive. I included the new executable, as 
> well as the sln and vcproj files that visual studio will need to build 
> the single nfbtrans.c.
> On 7/2/2011 4:28 PM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> > Attached is a free braille file from National Braille Press, 
> > founding.brf, containing the Declaration of Independence and related 
> > material.  Hope it can be used for testing.
> >
> > Jamal
> >
> > On 7/2/2011 6:20 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> >> It looks like I have this done a lot sooner. Do I just need to dump this
> >> in my edsharp directory to test? will someone send me a .brf file that I
> >> can try this out with to see if it does, indeed work?
> >> There were some asm functions (which were declared in the asm file),
> >> called sound, nosound and delay. I wasn't really sure what those did, so
> >> I just wrote c replacements. sound plays the beep (at a duration of 250
> >> ms), nosound toggles a flag that is checked for beeps, and delay just
> >> calls sleep. I have a ton of warnings, but I'm aiming for this to just
> >> work on a 64-bit system.
> >> On 7/2/2011 3:25 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> >>> Hello all:
> >>> Since this isn't something that is a huge issue to keep up to date
> >>> beyond it just working on 64-bit systems, I removed the secure
> >>> warnings, and started the conversions. There aren't to many issues I
> >>> don't think so far, except the fact that a lot of the function calls
> >>> (utime etc) are no longer in windows. I'm yanking the code with older
> >>> functions and writing drop-in replacements to do exactly (hopefully)
> >>> what the old functions do, so hopefully it will work with minimal
> >>> modifications. I'll post later with progress and/or a working copy
> >>> sometime this week.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
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> Ty
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