Questions to Sphinx: My program leads to sphinx crashing. - Solved

Christof Eb.

Hi, can someone please give me some hints?

I try to read the file test.dat with the Program firead.spn.
At the beginning of its lines, there is a number, that shall be read into a long.
The rest of each line is a text and this shall be read into a string buffer with zero end.

The file is produced by the editor ed.

Questions:
1. What is the line end code(s) for Sphinx?
2. Is there a possibility to read the next byte of the file buffer, but to give it back to the buffer?
3. Why does sphinx crash (at least the keyboard driver) after doing my program?
4. What must I do to protect the drivers?
5. Has anyone got the isxkb.spn file?

Thank you very much.
Christof

Post Edited (Christof Eb.) : 4/11/2010 7:38:12 PM GMT

mpark

isxkb.spn is attached.

I don't know why Sphinx is crashing. I'll look into it soon. (The PropBasic incompatibility is still on my list too. Sorry for the delay.)

Meanwhile, try changing firead.spn to test for CR followed by LF:

if ch == 13
      f.Read( @ch, 1 )  ' could use ReadByte here instead
    if ch == 10
      ch:= 0

There's no way currently to give a byte back to the file buffer. I think you could add some sort of "unget" to sxfile.

Christof Eb.

Thank you, Michael,

I wondered, if something special has to be done to protect the rendevous area?

Your Sphinx gives such a great new area of possibilities to run a minimal propeller computer as stand alone! Sorry please, that I am some kind of demanding without paying for nothing....

Best regards, Christof

Christof Eb.

Ups, that was missing @. Had thought that for arrays always adress would be passed. Grrrrrr cost me a day....

Christof

mpark

Christof,

Sphinx is free and worth every penny [noparse]:)[/noparse] I'm just glad you're getting some use out of it.


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