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oed 7.4 for DOS (Announce)

posted by bencollver , 29.04.2024, 19:35

The Watcom build of oed.exe began to fail. Instead of opening the file, it quit with the message "No error."

OpenBSD ed uses a temporary file for its scratch buffer. My changes silently failed to delete the temporary file on quit. Watcom's mkstemp() uses a letter plus the PID to generate temporary file name. Since the PID is always the same, it would run out after 26 runs (a-z).

I fixed this problem so that it will delete the temporary files on quit, as it is supposed to.

I posted the fix in oed74f.zip

Complete thread:

• oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 19.04.2024, 20:16 (Announce)
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - Rugxulo, 20.04.2024, 12:47
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 20.04.2024, 16:36
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - roytam, 25.04.2024, 10:03
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 25.04.2024, 16:22
    • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 27.04.2024, 01:37
      • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 29.04.2024, 06:09
        • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 29.04.2024, 19:35
          • oed 7.4 for DOS - Rugxulo, 27.05.2024, 19:02
            • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 28.05.2024, 15:46
  • oed 7.4 for DOS - bencollver, 22.08.2024, 22:05