[gambit-list] re: Gambit-C on Windows

[Marc Feeley]

On 13-Mar-06, at 2:15 AM, Greg Lee wrote:

> On January 19, 2006 Darren Pegg reported:
>
> >Perhaps I'm missing something, but if I build a release version of
> >Gambit-Cb17 VS 2003 V 7.1.3088
>
> >running from the windows command prompt I get the following :-
>
> >C:\gambc40b17\gsi>Release\gsi
> >Gambit Version 4.0 beta 17
>
> >> (+ 1 2)
> >3
> >>
> >*** EOF again to exit
> >doesn't seem to matter what I enter, I always get the EOF exit,  
> both under
> >gsi and gsc
>
> Has there been any follow-up to this?  As anyone gotten the MSVS  
> port to work?
>
>

Yes this is a bug.  It has been fixed in my working version.  It was  
due to the end-of-line decoding logic (CR-LF -> #\newline) on  
unbuffered ports.  As a temporary fix, start gsi this way

      gsi -:tl

or this way

      gsi -:tf

Marc