PPWIZARD Manual
Before asking questions, I would appreciate it if you'd ensure that
your answer was not in the FAQ or the
this manual!
Requested Information - Bugs or Problems
If reporting bugs/problems please supply:
- A detailed description of the problem.
Please don't bother wasting your and my time by
telling me "it did not work".
- All files involved (input, output and any batch files used to run
the preprocessor).
You have hopefully trimmed out everything which is not required by
me to recreate the problem.
- When supplying the redirected output from PPWIZARD please ensure that
you had used /DEBUG on the command line to turn on
debug mode.
The easier you make it for me the faster I will be able to come up with a fix or tell you what your doing wrong etc.
Reporting Bugs/Problems or Suggestions
There are two main ways to report PPWIZARD issues or ask questions,
they are:
- PPWIZARD Discussion List
People who are very interested in PPWIZARD can now join an email
based discussion group, any email sent to
ppwizard@egroups.com
will be seen by all subscribers.
Hopefully I won't have to answer them all, but if one person
answers, everyone gets the benefit of the response.
All messages are archived so you can always go back and see
previous messages.
I will also make announcements on this list.
If you think the problem might be a ppwizard or regina
bug (which you think others probably haven't encountered) you may
wish to contact me directly as others may not be interested (we
don't want too many messages).
Please don't attach large files to emails sent to this
address (there is a 100K limit as well anyway).
We'll have to see how it goes, hopefully it does not need to
become moderated (I probably haven't got time for that!).
- Authors Email Address
I will take feedback in this manner but in general prefer the
email list mentioned above.
Exceptions might be where you have large attachments, you don't
think anyone else would be interested, you don't want to join
the group (why not?) or you really want to hammer me!
If you must email me directly then send it to
dbareis@labyrinth.net.au.
If I think its appropriate I will "CC" the above discussion group
with my response.
Please zip attachments, this reduces the size of the email
and ensures that the information gets here uncorrupted.
Known Bugs or Problems
The following bugs are ppwizard bugs:
- None Known
The following bugs may occur when using the native interpreters
under OS/2:
- None Known
The following bugs may occur under
any operating system using regina (I will assume on "one of my recommended
versions only"):
- The debug time will be plus
or minus a second (this can produce negative times etc).
- Regina has a number of 'query exists' bugs, the one that might
affect you is if you specify an input file such as
"C:\CONFIG.SYS" and PPWIZARD tells you it can't open the
"CONFIG.SYS" file in a completely different directory!
Another one is where "garbage" might appear after a filename.
PPWIZARD Manual

Tuesday January 02 2001 at 7:37am