gnupic@linuxhacker.org

Dear James,

Thanks for the comments and patches.

> a) most source kits are shipped as .tar.gz rather than .tgz, and if
> you're accepting votes then I vote for .tar.gz

Renamed.

> b) the .tgz file unpacks to the current directory without creating one,
> mixing the files with what I have already at my current directory,
> please change it to place all files in a new directory.  I can explain
> how to do that if you need to know.

Corrected.

> c) there's no copyright or license.  Before I use it, I want to know
> what I can do with it.  Would you like to adopt the GPL?  Place a file
> called COPYING that contains the GPL, and follow the instructions in it.

Actually I'm not a copyright expert. This is why I didn't care
these issues so far.
GPL will be attached on the next snapshot.


>
> d) reviewed the code, looks neat, very few obvious defects, well done.
> Some minor corrections are attached as a patch.

Two of them is already corrected.
The others will be put in the next snapshot.

> It might be an idea to adapt picprg or other command line parallel port
> programmers to this model, so that we have a set of programmers to build
> into a GUI.

Actually I don't know parallel programmers.
I'm afraid that most of them has a very low level (e.g. bit level)
interface and all chip specific algorithms and microsecond timings must be
implemented on the host side. This seems a bit problematic at this
moment.

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The latest available snapshot is
ftp://gatling.ikk.sztaki.hu/pub/pic/pista/pista-snapshot-2003-10-26.tar.gz

Changes since 2003-10-23:
- Command 'delete' (vs. erase) is implemented.
- There is a progress report during long operations. (Probably welcomed
  by potential GUIs.)
- Minor bugfixes.
- More coherent reply codes.
- Expanded list of "missing features". :-)

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Folks,

I need suggestions about compare command. What would be the most
usable output format?


Gabor