BUGS o ^D (EOF) on stdin causes input routines to endlessly loop. o When the programme asks "What is the probability of getting the improbability?" the answer is assumed to contain a decimal point. If none is entered, a signal SEGV occurs. FIXES o A routine was added to parser.c named trapEOF and the eofgets() macro facilitates this call. ^D now terminates the programme with exit code 1. o The input to the question now accepts forms of 50, 50.7, 0.50 and 1/2, all returning a value equivalent to 50%. Other input (1/,fifty percent) will simply be interpreted as 0. AESTHETIC CHANGES o A -f option was allowed. This causes the programme to start in the researcher's office. The title and instructions are skipped. o The prompt at the end of the title screen lets you skip the instructions. o srand() is now randomized by the system clock. It had been randomized by the values returned from get_enter() at the first two screens, but this usually resulted in sum being always set to a value of 86 as most people don't type anything at a prompt that says to just press . o The code now passes the lint test. It barfed in a big way with the original code as numerous return codes were not checked and some return values were inconsistent. The latter was caused by the absence of string.h; to keep portability, I included extern definitions to the common string functions used in the programme. I don't know whether it will compile with Datalight (?) C as I don't have access to that compiler. All casting to (void) will also have to be removed on compilers without void. o fgets replaced all gets calls because gets is inherently evil. o The printing of the title screen when exiting the programme has been removed. It just isn't in the spirit of UNIX. |:-) -- Dave Lawrence tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu