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From: mjb@netcom.com (Martin Brown)
Subject: new file added to archive
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 00:44:08 GMT
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A new file has been added to the st_v section (Digitalk /V smalltalk and 
related third party products) of the smalltalk archive at st.cs.uiuc.edu :

   /archive/ftp/pub/STV/st_v/v_win/ExceptionHandling/ExceptionHandling.st

Here is the CATALOG-CARD file for that file:


    NAME             ExceptionHandling
    AUTHOR           Marcio Q. Marchini (mqm@edugraf.ufsc.br)
    FUNCTION         Port to VWIN the ST-80-style exception handling
                     by Bob Hinkle
    ST-VERSIONS      Smalltalk/V Windows 2.0
    PREREQUISITES    None
    CONFLICTS        None known
    DISTRIBUTION     World
    VERSION          1.0
    DATE             02 December 1994
    SUMMARY          ExceptionHandling

    This is in fact a port of the code found in st.cs.uiuc.edu at:

           pub/STV/st_v/v_286/ExceptionHandling/ExceptionHandling.st

to Smalltalk/V Windows 2.0. The original author, Bob Hinkle, is aware
of this port. The original version runs in Smalltalk/V 286. Follows the
summary he put in his file:

Adds the classes needed (and extends a few existing ones) to support signal
handling in the same manner (and with the same interface) as the Smalltalk-80
classes Signal and Exception.  In addition to providing this useful
functionality, this package also illustrates some ways to interact with
processes and contexts in V/286, and makes some extensions that 
facilitate that
interaction for programmers.
    The code in this file is described in the article 'Taking Exception to
Smalltalk,' written by myself and Ralph Johnson, which appeared in the 
November/
December 1992 issue (Volume 2, Number 3) and the January 1993 issue 
(Volume 2,
Number 4) of The Smalltalk Report.
                                    --  Bob Hinkle


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