[Info-vax] MMK v. me, old and new problems.

[Steven Schweda]

Jouk Jansen wrote:

> >    Interestingly, the V4.x programs seem to have forgotten how
> > to apply a default file spec.  For example:

> I did some tests with version 4.0 but it has not forgotten all about
> "default" file specs : if the description file is descrip.mms or (if
> descrip.mms does not exists) is makefile. then it is sufficient to type
> just "mmk"

   No, it hasn't forgotten _all_ about default file specs, but
it _has_ forgotten too much:

alp $ copy descrip.mms fred.mms

alp $ mms /desc = fred
%MMS-F-NOTARGET, No target specified.

alp $ mmk /desc = fred
%MMK-F-NOTARGETS, no target found

alp $ mmk4 /desc = fred
%MMK-F-NOOPNDSC, could not open description file fred
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

alp $ mmk41 /desc = fred
%MMK-F-NOOPNDSC, could not open description file fred
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

   Does that look like an improvement to you?  It's not the
biggest problem, it's just something (else) I noticed while
trying to add MMSDESCRIPTION_FILE.

   It's not too hard to fix:

alp $ mmk4x /desc = fred
%MMK-F-NOTARGETS, no target found

But there's more than one way to do it.


IanMiller wrote:

> http://www.kednos.com/kednos/Resources/MMK

   Ah.  That's probably where I got the stuff I have.  The kit
file names agree, anyway.  I may try the mailing list there.

   It has no grasp of ODS5, either (NAM v. NAML, hard-coded
255/256 file name lengths, ...), nor lots of /EXTENDED
features (nor ...).  Lots of potential there for people with
time to kill.