News You Can Bruise for 1999 March 14

Sun Mar 14 1999 14:39: TATC now works locally (not through RMI) if you have all the classes on your system. This is good for me begause it was driving me crazy bringing the server up and down whenever I changed anything. I almost have it doing the basic windowed grep, which is about as far as I will go (yes, sir!) for the 131 project.

Sun Mar 14 1999 15:57:

Shocking come-on found in GNU General Public License!

EWHOS
SFORO
ESEXT
IREWH
OEACH

Man, TATC is great. It only looks backwards and forwards at the moment (the hard part is not looking in other directions but in generating boxes for those other directions), and lacks almost all real functionality, but I can already jump to ridiculous, unwarrented conclusions about pieces of arbitrary text.

The actual run looks like this:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking for "sex" in http://crummy.segfault.org/code/gpl.txt
012345
1EWHOS
2SFORO
3ESEXT
4IREWH
5OEACH
"sex" found at (2,3)
Step: (1,0)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hit enter to continue.

Sun Mar 14 1999 18:58: Oh man. I'm so close to having TATC do arbitrary-step searching. The implementation of the bit that makes the text block is brilliant. I just have to do more experiments and fine-tune the equations.

Sun Mar 14 1999 21:10: TATC To-do list:

1. Figure out slantwise block generation.
2. Catch StringIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions and make them just quit looking for the rest of an out-of-box string.
3. Don't reverse coordinates for strings found upside-down or backwards

I have left-right and up-down searches working.