G'day mr. Jones,

*** 28.09.2003 at 06:53, Bob Jones wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BJ>> Didn't you say something about auto-generating the FTSC product
 BJ>> table from an FTSC document?  If so, what files were updated for
 BJ>> this change?  Did you add any new files to the code?  Was this
 BJ>> strictly a squish change?  

 BS>> No actually not, it didn't work out well, so I removed it..

 BJ> Ok.  That is an interesting idea thou....  We may want to keep the
 BJ> awk command as an optional build target that we only occationaly
 BJ> execute, and then check in the updataed .c file after the
 BJ> change.....  Do you know how to set that up? 

Well it's not very important, and none of newer tossers set the products
ID, so it's more or less useless..

 BJ>>  What
 BJ>> program were you using to extract info from the FTSC table?  Do we
 BJ>> have that program tested in the ./configure script Wes wrote?  If
 BJ>> not, the ./configure script needs updating to test for the program,
 BJ>> and generate needed enviornment settings, etc. 

 BS>> I used a AWK script, taken from the mbse bbs, it was 
 BS>> put in, in the makefile so it did run the awk script before
 BS>> compiling ..

 BJ> Ah....  Ok....  Let's make this an optional target to run the awk
 BJ> script....  Normal users wouldn't need to run this, but when the
 BJ> FTSC product code list gets updated, one of us could run the script
 BJ> and check in the updated .c (or .h) file with the updated
 BJ> table.....

We can do so :-) Did you get the file, and looked at the comments?

Regards,
        Bo

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