Re: SPEC and MCA

[Gerry Swislow <gerry@certif.com>]

Hi Pete,

I'm working on a standard set of MCA macros.  As often happens, work on 
macros motivates new C code features, which distracts from the macro 
development.  Yesterday, I implemented a new option to array_dump(), 
which is the function to use to output the data array into which the 
MCA data has been stuffed.

New File Argument Available for array_dump() and data_dump()
      An optional initial argument to the array_dump() and data_dump()
      functions can now be used to specify an output file, which makes it
      unecessary to use the on() and off() functions or related macros 
when
      writing array data to a file.

That feature will be in the next release.

Anyway, you can pick up a work-in-progress version of the MCA macros at
	ftp://ftp.certif.com/pub/macros/mca.mac

(These macros wiill work with the old array_dump() syntax.)

I'd appreciate any feedback on the macros.  Different spec users will 
surely want different features in the macros.  I will try to 
accommodate as many features as comfortably fit.  At present, the 
macros are rather bare bones.

Regards,

Gerry

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