[Coco] "C" HD Was: C Programming

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] C Programming
> On Saturday 06 February 2010, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>There is a version of "make" that is much better.
>>
> Yes, I have used it a couple of times, but carving a Makefile from scratch
> was never a strong suite of mine.

I do not remember it being very hard, most of the work is done with wild 
cards or something similar.
I had a set of batch files that I just started the first one and the other 
ones were called by it.

>>The author I forget except that he changed his name. He also wrote other
>>OS-9 software.
>>After I changed a source file all I had to do was start a batch file and
>> the executable was rebuilt. And perhaps the ram disk changes were copied
>> to the floppy so that the changes would not be lost.
>
> Std for almost all software now I believe, to rebuild and relink the whole
> thing, but only actually recompile one file, all you have t do is 'touch' 
> the
> file.
>
>>I suggested long ago that a web page listing what you just provided would
>> be useful.
>
> Perhaps I should copy this to my own pages? I haven't changed much there 
> in
> about a year, although the nitros9 link is now to the beta of 3.2.9, and 
> that
> is collecting some cruft as I fight with sc6551.dr, it has a hang if flow
> controls are needed. However, windowing the faster client will keep it 
> under
> that trigger point if the incoming buffer is big enough, due to the 
> windowing
> handshaking.

Links to all the parts would be useful.

>>I wish I had time to build one, but I do not.
>
>>Collecting all the files into a HD image would also be useful.

Are you running any emulators, I get the impression you are using a real 
CoCo.

Surely you can do a ZIP, I have used several programs that handle most 
formats.

In any case, there will be many persons suggesting better tools and ways.

HD's for the CoCo can be any size, the Pascal one is 90 Megs. So lots of "C" 
stuff could be included.

We just need someone to step up and agree to build the "C" HD and accept 
comments and files from others.

> I might be able to do a tarball I suppose. gzipped optional.
>
>>I can provide a dsk image that may be set up ready to go, but I have not
>>looked at it for decades.
>>
>>
>>I also have many CD's and files that are at the level of K&R. "C". JPL
>>Library, Numerical Recipes, Graphical Segmentation, and much more.
>>
>>SHF
>
> Interesting. Have you considered offering it to the nitros9 folks?

I do not understand this.

Numerical Recipes and Graphical Segmentation need copies of the book to use. 
The CD's are standalone and in many cases PC orientated.

I am willing at this point up upload CD iso images to an CoCo website. I 
have quite a number of them. It might have to kept to our selves even though 
it has been so many years and most of the files were collected from the 
Internet.

But I am afraid that the effort may be like my scanning of magazines for the 
OS-9 archive and producing "Urbane". I got no feedback that anyone was 
reading or using them.

>
> [...]
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene

SHF