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RE: [Axiom-developer] TeXmacs interface and backward compatibility
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Bill Page |
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RE: [Axiom-developer] TeXmacs interface and backward compatibility |
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Sun, 28 Sep 2003 17:11:34 -0400 |
Tim,
The problem is with the synchronization of the
input/output between Axiom and TeXmacs. There is
a small "filter" program called tm_axiom which fits
between Axiom and TeXmacs. The filter needs to know
when it can send a buffer originating from TeXmacs
to Axiom. It does this by waiting for the Axiom
prompt -> to be output by Axiom. The original version
of tm_axiom expected two such prompts before it
would begin to send the TeXmacs buffer to Axiom.
The change that David and I have made to tm_axiom
causes it to wait for only one Axiom prompt.
I am not sure, but I suspect that this change will
not break the interface between the older versions
of Axiom which do generate two prompts. The result of
our change is that tm_axiom will send the buffer
immediately after receiving the first prompt. Axiom
should simply issue one more prompt and then read the
buffer from it's input anyway. Unfortunately, I am
not able to test this since I do not have access to
any earlier versions of Axiom.
Cheers,
Bill Page.
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> Ah, another simple job, eh? :-)
>
> Clearly we don't have the ability to support NAG's version of
> Axiom because we don't have the whole distribution. I'd be
> willing to but can't because of licensing reasons (Mike,
> could I become a "support licensee" of NAG? Can you
> sublicense support?).
>
> (Barry, your question is related to the support sublicense issue)
>
> I don't see why texmacs doesn't just let both prompts show up
> just like they do in the normal console.
>
> Joris, does letting both prompts show up cause an issue for
> TeXmacs (not the NAG users, just TeXmacs)?
>
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> tim
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Re: [Axiom-developer] TeXmacs interface and backward compatibility, Joris van der Hoeven, 2003/09/28
Re: [Axiom-developer] TeXmacs interface and backward compatibility, Mike Dewar, 2003/09/29
Re: [Axiom-developer] TeXmacs interface and backward compatibility, Jaap Weel, 2003/09/28