> When I logged on today, I planned to post, "hey, to all the Zip
> maintainers reading this, let's combine our source trees".
> Excellent idea.
I agree. I would be happy for JZIP to join the bandwagon - I think there
is still room for differing user interface modules, for the "look and feel"
thing, but the rest of the core code should be the same. The only problem
I forsee is that the two zip_random functions out there are not interchangeable.
One works great on DOS (and probably other platforms) and the other works
great on UNIX, but interchanging them is not possible because they fail to
be random enough when switched... Any volunteers to write an all-working
zip_random, if it is possible?
I'm about to release the next JZIP - it has rather elegant (IMHO) command
history & editing functions (thanks to John Menichelli (I hope I spelled that
right!), although perhaps not as nice as your beta that does sound. It
supports arrow keys on most *NIX boxes with command history & editing. It
will have additional interface code for Atari ST's running MiNT and hopefully
TOS (Thanks, Dancer!). It also supports 1/10th second timing intervals,
bringing it back to spec, and sending zero to the random number generator
reseeds it with a known number.
Anyway, it doesn't do the Beyond Zork charset. It would be nice to have
that working on DOS... *sigh*
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