File created 01:26:31, July 12, 1976. Printed XGP listing dated
19:54:34 07/30/76, from Alan Snyder. Transcribed by Fausto Saporito
in 2018. Checked against @ listing by Adam Sampson.
This documentation is not built from source -- still working on that.
But since people are trying to use Macsyma and might benefit from
documentation. This commit adds the latest macsym doc we have avaialble.
This program reads files in several printable formats including ARDS,
XGP and PLT, and rasterises them for Versatec V80 and Gould 5200
printers, or as "Harvard scan" RLE bitmap files.
Normally it runs as a printer spooler, scanning the .GLPR. directory.
When invoked as VERSA, it runs in a test mode where it opens a fixed
series of files and displays them interactively using SUPDUP graphics.
The latter is more useful at the moment, so don't install the CHANNA
link by default.
This is based on AI: SYS2; TS XXFILE, which was compiled by TAA on
1979-08-23 from XXFILE MTA220, and on @larsbrinkhoff's reconstruction.
After modifying the XXFILE MTA224 source to match (remove the OASC in
CTTYB, and the three .CLOSEs in CQUIT), this compiles into an identical
binary.
The UUO handlers look like they're based on the ones from DIRED, so I've
preserved the DIRED comments where possible, but otherwise adjusted to
match the style used in XXFILE.
The MDL 54/104 and 55/105 manuals give the name SYS:TS MDL for the
interpreter, and a comment in MAIN says it was TS MUDDLE, so install
links for both.
Resolves#284.
Commented out uses of time-origin in maxtul; mcldmp (init) until we
can figure out why it gives arithmetic overflows under the emulators.
Updated the expect script statements in build_macsyma_portion to not
attempt to match expected strings, but simply sleep for some time
since in some cases the matching appears not to work.
