I have a bootstrapping program that I developed under v. 7, which I now
want to rewrite to run as native code under v.8. I am discovering that,
apparently, v.7's bstrap and v.8's bootstrap are more different than the
help documentation indicates. My immediate difficulty is this: My bstrap
usage in the v.7 code took a program of my own ("MyProg")as an argument,
and several user-defined quantities were calculated and posted within the
program. The bstrap command looked like this:
bstrap MyProg, size(100) reps(1000)
Under v.8, this usage occasions an error message indicating that this
command lack an an "expression list," but that seems irrelevant to me,
since MyProg does its own posting. Can someone enlighten me here about how
to satisfy bootstrap's apparent desire for an expression list? Perhaps this
is documented in the hard copy manuals (which I didn't buy) but not in the
program help?
Also, I notice that the grammar for bootstrap in v. 8 indicates that it is
intended to take a command rather than a program as an argument, although
there is a reference in the help text indicating that it can take a user
program, as did bstrap. Is there some significant change in the
bootstrapping facilities between v.7 and v.8?
Regards,
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Mike Lacy
Fort Collins CO
(970) 491-6721 office
