[Coco] C Programming

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Much like my own technique. (It's how I learned shell, make and Perl).  Find something close to what you're looking for, patch in what you're trying to do, see if it works, then file (hardware style, not version control) off the serial numbers.  Frex, (just realized this a SF fan term, not computer geek word, it means "for example" -- my friend Eric who maintains the Jargon file is in both categories, and when we meet at conventions we usually talk about guns) I first learned shell scripting from the Tandy "/etc/install" in the first release of Tandy Xenix, and never looked back.  (I also stole much of the BASIC code [translating from HP to MS] in my only published article in 80-Micro a couple years previous, which got me my job as an RSCC instructor, else I wouldn't have been exposed to Xenix and OS-9 pre-official-Tandy-release).

So let those I "stole from" sue me.  It takes a couple of decades to bring a plagiarism case to trial in Australia or the US,  If I last another year, I'll outlive the record for anybody with my Y-chromosome (probably happen, I don't dig coal and I smoke maybe a quarter as much as my father did [the current record holder, the VA finally gave up on his liver], and I don't drink near as much as my ancestors always did or I used to [a couple generations back, cirrhosis replaced Black Lung as the usual suspect when a male in my family crapped out]).
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

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The Bible says (in Palms 90:10) that "The days of our years are threescore years and ten", yet Xtians frequently defy G-d's will and continue to preach rather than commit suicide on their 70th birthday.  Yeah, the Psalm says you're allowed to live to eighty, but you're going to suffer if you do that, so you might as well just kill yourself.  Suicide is not a sin in the Old Testament, and I can't find the spot in the New Testament that changes the status.  (This blasphemy is an original from me [wdg3rd], the sort of thing I strive for).


----- "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:34:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> 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.
> 
> >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.
> 
> >I wish I had time to build one, but I do not.
> 
> >Collecting all the files into a HD image would also be useful.
> 
> 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?
> 
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> 
> "If a machine couldn't run a free operating system, we got rid of
> it."
> 
>   -- Richard Stallman (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)
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