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Re: VM02 Beta 1
On 9/14/08 2:24 PM, in article ipqdnWmvM75ay1DVnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@comcast.com,
"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-3ym-this> wrote in message
> news:140sokc53p7je$.1xk6bi9q0qby8$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> To: David Schmenk
>> Just want to point out a few typographical errors in your README:
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:27:00 -0700, David Schmenk wrote:
>>> Running VM02:
>>> -------------
>>> VM02 is run by executing the JAVA.SYSTEM file. You must start
>>> JAVA.SYSTEM from
>>> the prefix where it exits. This is required to find the class base path
>>> to the
>>
>> "exits" should probably be "exists".
>>
>>> support classes. Parameter passing is supported if your shell
>>> implements it.
>>> If no paramter is passed in and a file named STARTUP exits, it will be
>>> loaded
>>
>> Again, "exits" should probably be "exists"
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> Known issues:
>>> -------------
>>> Currently two know issues are exist; the StringBuilder class has
>>> problems that sometimes
>>
>> "known" should probably be "known" and the beginning of that sentence
>> might work better worded this way : "Currenty two issues are known to
>> exist".
>>
>>> cause string concatenation to freak out. I'll be looking into this
>>> shortly. In
>>> the mean time, try alternative methods (like individial print() calls to
>>> print
>>> a compound message). The Super Serial Card driver has problems with
>>> XON/XOFF
>>> flow control. It might be a problem with my USB serial dongle. I tried
>>> hardware flow control, which worked except charaters would get truncated
>>> when
>>
>> "charaters" shoudl probably be "characters".
>
> It may also be a good idea to proof-read your corrections
> before posting, in order to not create any more errors.
>
> Example above, 'shoudl', should be 'should'. ;-)
>
And when he listed one correction, he made the correction:
>> "known" should probably be "known"
It can be hard to type the wrong thing, sometimes...