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Agena v. 7.12.4 (6/11/2026, Alexander Walz) |
Readme/What's new |
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`The Power of Procedural Programming`
7.12.4 Kerberos, November 06, 2026
- The new `readstat` package reads and writes SPSS sav files:
> import readstat
> L := readstat.read('../data/hotel.sav');
> for i, j in L do print(i, j) od
data [[4, 2, 3, 4, 1], [1, 1, 4, 1, 1], [4, 2, 2, 3, 4], [3, 1, 3, 1, 2], [5, 3, 1, 4, 3], etc. ]
value_labels [labels0 ~ [Strongly Disagree, Disagree, No Opinion, Agree, Strongly Agree]]
variables [[label ~ I am satisfied with the level of service, name ~ v1, type ~ numeric, value_labels ~ labels0],
[label ~ The value for money was good, name ~ v2, type ~ numeric, value_labels ~ labels0], etc.]
rows 17
columns 5
Save it back to a new file:
readstat.save(L, 'hotelnew.sav');
The package is supported on OS/2, Windows, macOS, Intel Debian and Solaris 10.
- `tonumber` and `stats.tovals` can now convert strings representing binary or octal constants, degrees and a variety of
expressions like 90d (= Pi/2), 1k (= 1,000), 1M (= 1,048,576) et cetera to Agena numbers. For all supported formats see
Chapter 4.6.1 in the Primer.
> tonumber('0xa23p-4'):
162.1875
- You can now pass a number string directly into `char` to get an ASCII character. The string may represent a decimal or
hexadecimal integer. Example:
> char(65), char('65'), char('0x41'):
A A A
- `aspell.norm` now treats an asterisk in *_phonet.dat files as a literal character, removing its previous special functionality.
This change ensures the output more closely matches Aspell when called with the 'soundslike' option.
- The 64-bit `gdi` package and an underlying dependency have been recompiled, and hence the 64-bit Windows installers have
become much smaller.
- The 64-bit Windows edition of Agena now fully runs on Windows 7 and 8.1, including the `gdi` and `fractals` packages.
- On 64-bit Windows, implemented a hotfix to force the physical CPU into 80-bit mode whenever 80-bit arithmetic is requested.
This helped solve the problem of corrupt math when the regression test is being run a second time in the same session, but may
not be a comprehensive solution. Specifically, the hotfix has been added to an underlying function computing the Gamma function
in 80-bit precision for fractional arguments, and which is used by quite a lot of Agena arithmetic functions. This solved
problems with 32-bit Agena running on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit, and 64-bit Agena running on Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11. |
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Run Agena Scripts Easily (rase) v. 7.11.2 (17/10/2026, Alexander Walz) |
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rase - Run Agena Scripts Easily in Windows NT 4.0 or later and in OS/2.
Please refer to the explanations in `example.agn`.
For a quick demo, unpack all the files into a new, fresh directory, change into this directory and run the `example.exe` file
in an command shell (Windows) or `example.cmd` (OS/2) as follows:
example 1 2
There is also a utility called `whereis` which searches for a file in a path:
whereis /r /a "agena.*" c:/agena
Another one prints drive information:
drive c:
A script printing information on installed memory:
memory
Finally, cpuinfo prints various information on the CPU:
cpuinfo /a
In your operating system, you may want to add the path to the rase directory to your PATH system environment variable.
Credit: The implementation is based on https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/cs420/lecture/LuaLectures/LuaAndC.html,
written by: Associate Professor David Galles, Department of Computer Science, University of San Francisco, CA 94117.
For compilation hints, check the top of the rase.c source file.
----------------------------------------------------------------
# READ.ME and DEMO Run Agena Scripts Easily (rase) for Windows
/*
This file shows how to execute Agena scripts in Windows NT 4.0 and later without passing the script and its arguments
to the actual Agena interpreter.
We won't call "agena example.agn 1 2" from the commandline, but just enter "example 1 2" in the NT shell.
In OS/2 we use the batch script example.cmd to execute a script.
Please make sure that the following files are now in one and the same directory:
example.agn (or your favourite script filename)
example.exe (Windows only, or your favourite executable filename)
agena.exe (in OS/2 only)
agena.dll (do not change the filename)
library.agn (do not change the filename)
libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll (Windows only, do not change the filename)
libmingwex-4.dll (Windoes only, do not change the filename)
In Windows, rename the following files in this ZIP file to your favourite name:
example.exe -> yourfavouritename.exe
example.agn -> yourfavouritename.agn
In OS/2, rename the following files in this ZIP file to your favourite name:
example.cmd -> yourfavouritename.cmd
example.agn -> yourfavouritename.agn
and edit the *.agn file according to your need. The *.exe or *.cmd file will launch your *.agn script file of the same name.
For a more elobarate script that locates files, links or folders in a directory, check the `whereis.agn` script.
For a script that prints drive information, check the `drive.agn` script. */
print('\nDemo using NO explicit function by referring to the \`args\' table:');
print('-----------------------------------------------------------------\n');
print('Number of arguments:', size(args));
# all arguments (all strings )are available in the args table, including the name of the script at index 1
print('Arguments passed: ', args);
# we convert the command-line arguments to numbers
local x, y := tonumber(args[2]), tonumber(args[3]);
if x :: number and y :: number then
print('Test: ', x & ' minus ' & y & ' is ' & (x - y));
print('Test: ', 'sqrt(' & x & ' + ' & y & ') is ' & sqrt(x + y))
fi;
/* In Windows, we _alternatively_ define a function of the same name as the executable
(w/o the file suffix, `example` in this case). This function will then be called
by the executable `example.exe`.
Just enter the following statement in an NT shell (cmd.com) and see what will happen:
example 1 2
*/
example := proc(?) is # this function will be automatically called by the executable
print('\nDemo using explicit function of same name \& \`nargs\' and the \`varargs\' table:');
print('----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n');
print('Number of arguments:', nargs);
print('Arguments passed: ', ?);
local x, y := tonumber(?[1]), tonumber(?[2]);
if x :: number and y :: number then
print('Test: ', x & ' minus ' & y & ' is ' & (x - y));
print('Test: ', 'sqrt(' & x & ' + ' & y & ') is ' & sqrt(x + y))
fi
end;
/* The output should be:
C:\agena\extract>example 1 2
Demo using NO explicit function by referring to the `args' table:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Number of arguments: 3
Arguments passed: [example, 1, 2]
Test: 1 minus 2 is -1
Test: sqrt(1 + 2) is 1.7320508075689
Demo using explicit function of same name & `nargs' and the `varargs' table:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of arguments: 3
Arguments passed: [example, 1, 2]
Test: 1 minus 2 is -1
Test: sqrt(1 + 2) is 1.7320508075689
*/
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Agena v. 7.8.10 (21/8/2026, Alexander Walz) |
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`The Power of Procedural Programming`
7.8.10 Phobos, August 21, 2026
- The new function `strings.hirschberg` takes two strings s and t and returns their global alignment in three results:
the edit sequence, the alignment of s and the alignment of t. The function uses the memory-friendly Hirschberg algorithm
which yields a total structural space complexity of strictly O(N + M).
> strings.hirschberg('Alex', 'Axelander'):
=++=+++=! A l ex Axelander
> strings.hirschberg('Axelander', 'Alex'):
=--=---=! Axelander A l ex
- When given the -b, -q, -Q command-line options and with multiple returns, the pretty-printer wrote the last return only, and
this multiple times. The same happened when setting the 'enclose', 'encloseback' or 'enclosedouble' switches to true via a
call to `environ.kernel`. This has all been fixed.
- This release has been successfully Valgrind-tested on x86 Linux. |
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