[Coco] "C" Compiling Was: New CoCo site for programmers

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

If I am going to look back to see what I was doing I would insist that at 
least one person commit to doing it also.

You might want to ask the same.

Memory is good but doing it is better to identify what is said is correct.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] "C" Compiling Was: New CoCo site for programmers


> On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Gene, please do not take this badly, we all are responsible.
>>
>>When I signed on to Delphi at 300 baud it was a new world. I still have 
>>the
>>transcript of that session and many others. That's how part of what I will
>>be describing can be helped.
>>
>>The files offered had one line descriptions and long descriptions, some
>>quite long. That was back in the 1980s.
>>
>>Now today, well into the Twenty-first Century, on RTSI and perhaps your
>>site,
>>we have ...... *filenames only* . ................
>>
>>I consider this a great step back.
>>
> It is, but my talents as a web composer are sucky at best.
>>-------------------------------
>>
>>What I hoped that you would be providing was not the files but a
>> description of the compiling process for "C" identifying the various
>> programs in the process and noting why you chose them.
>
> I'll see if I can't cobble something together, but its been a few years 
> since
> I actually ran the c compiler on my machine, so bear with me please.
> Memories get hazy after a 15 year hiatus.
>
>>I may be able to recognize which programs are used and figure out how to
>> use them but some other interested persons may not be able to.
>>
>>I do not know if it still would be useful but I had a system that after
>>editing part of "Colorful SLED" or other program under development, I just
>>invoked a shell script and all the rest was automated using several shell
>>scripts and "make" which is missing from your site.
>
> We do have a 'make', and I have used it, but generally, that compiler is
> driven with what is essentially a shell script called CC or some variation 
> on
> that theme.  There are many of those, all of them editable to do as you 
> like.
> Later this evening I'll see if I can't build a instruction web page, but I
> may need help with that. ;)
>
>>I expect that I would learn new things and others would also. Your words I
>>would suggest be offered to the new Webmaster to be built into a web page
>>with "Color", diagrams and pictures.
>
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>
>>To balance out the age of pictures on the Internet, I offer this one:
>>
>>http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18244428#post18244428
>>
>>SHF
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:15 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Coco] New CoCo site for programmers
>>
>>> On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Did you not say that you were going to add to your page the list of "C"
>>>>compiler utilities?
>>>
>>> I can do better than that, I can put the ones I have up on my page, some
>>> of
>>> which may even be there, I added another link a week or so back to
>>> another directory where I'd put some of my utility's and such.
>>>
>>> Check at <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf>
>>>
>>> I just looked, looks like most of it is there, ping me if anything you
>>> know
>>> about is missing.
>>>
>>>>SHF
>>
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