Re: Many questions on 2.5

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Don Cole wrote:

> I paid for the full version of 2.4. and am quite happy with it.
> Whould I have to pay more for the full version  of 2.5?
> What is the front end?

Front end is the first part of ex.exe, exw.exe, exwc.exe, exu which
parses your code and prepares IL code for a back end.
There are 2 back ends, 1st - built into ex.exe, exw.exe, exwc. exe, exu
as its second part, which runs your program as IL code.
2-nd - backend.exe, backendw.exe, backendu.
These are DOS/WIN/Lin stand alone backends for running .IL files
and for binding with .IL files to prepare stand alone .exe file
of your program.

BTW, Rob, there are typos in the bin.doc file about binding --
binding, as far as I understand correctly, is performing with
backend*.exe, not with ex*.exe, right?

> What is an interpeter?

Interpreters are ex.exe, exw.exe, exwc.exe, exu, as in 2.4 and always.
Plus you have the PD source code of interpreter now.

> What is an .il file?

.IL file is shrouded new form of EU srouded (scrambled) file,
which consists of encripted IL code.
IL code doesn't require any parsing and runs immediatelly.

> I have Dell 1.66 Mhz.
> Whould that be concidered an older machine?

There is typo, maybe 166 MHz, or 1.66 GHz ?

If it is 166 MHz, you may have to spent a bit more time
on parsing of your very large programs or libraries.

If it is 1.66 GHz, you'll not see a difference.

> I download 2.5 and in the READ ME file it says "You can down load a
Euphoria
> to C translator from our website".
> Where is it ?

In the EUPHORIA\BIN directory, there are two translators - for Dos and for
Win,
ec.exe and ecw.exe.

> And finally what is a back end?

Please, see above, and in the EUPHORIA\BIN directory - bin.doc.

> 
> Don Cole
> SF

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Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
PS Correct me please, if I am wrong.

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