How to get the "high" Patternspecflags to work (was Problems, setting parameters for single units)

[Mathias Weigt <weigt@uni.de>]

On Monday 26 February 2001 21:25, Randall C. O'Reilly wrote:
[...]
> The bottom line is that this manipulation is designed in pdp++ to be
> done in the environment, not in the network.  You could for example
> use the pattern flags in the environment to pick certain inputs to
> not be presented -- if you use the global flags associated with the
> pattern spec, you only need to set these once and it will affect all
> of the events, without having to change the event patterns
> themselves.  This is what I would recommend.

Ok. I've done this with the GlobalPatternSpec Flags as shown in the 
Environmentview. Especially the COMP-Flag (16) and the 
COMP_TARG_EXT_FLAG (128) set the activation of the Input-Unit to zero 
(because the values are only given for comparison purpose...).
But I investigatet that the Flags are only accepted up to 8bit Values 
(And so only 8 Flags). That means that the last Flag one could set is 
TARG_VALUE -> the corresponding Integer 256. There are 5 more Flags 
available (EXT_VALUE, TARG_EXT_VALUE, NO_UNIT_FLAG, NO_UNIT_VALUES, 
NO_APPLY) but I can't set one of them because the Flag-Value is always 
set to 256 (and this is TARG_VALUE). That' s a pity because the last 
flags sound very interesting for the things I wanted to do.
Is there a way to get these high Flags working ?
(I'm still talking about bp++)

Thanks
-- 
Mathias Weigt