[Coco] OS-9 / NitOS-9 C programmers, lend me your makefiles

[James Jones]

Sadly, for some reason I will never understand, on OS-9 on the CoCo, ASCII
HT has the effect of reverse line feed (aka "line starve"); I'm pretty sure
it's the code you get when you hit the up arrow key. If memory serves,
something equally bogus is done with '\x60', which should be the grave
accent, so if anyone does a shell with command substitution, it can't use
the popular Unix/Linux shell notation for it.

Popping the stack back to makefiles, this unfortunate problem means
makefiles will be unintelligible when listed without some tab-specific help.

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 10:37 PM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:

> I noticed there's a bug in the OS-9 port in that when Neil changed the
> code to work with spaces, he actually changed it to work _only_ with
> spaces and not tabs. Unfortunately, this means that the OS9 version
> _cannot_ use Makefiles that are compatible with every other Make in
> the world, and vice versa. This is an oversight that needs correcting;
> if you get to it before I do, awesome, otherwise I'll do it. :)
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:17 PM William Carlin <whcarlinjr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Jeff,
> >
> > I saw all the references to EON in the source but I couldn't find any
> > reference to it on Google.  There is a modern OS called EON but I do not
> > think it has any relation to the EON referenced in PD Make.
> >
> > I'll LHArc my source code, copy it up to my Google Drive, and then share
> > the link here.  The reason I wanted to know how to add empty directories
> to
> > the LZH archives was to archive this source code when the time to share
> it
> > out was appropriate.
> >
> > William Carlin, Jr.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 7:25 AM Jeff Teunissen <deek at d2dc.net> wrote:
> >
> > > More information discovered about our favorite Make:
> > >
> > > It was originally written for an OS I have never heard of, called
> > > "eon", by someone named Neil Russell. I surmise Neil had been either
> > > working or studying at an Australian university when he wrote it, from
> > > his ACSNet email address.
> > >
> > > A later version Neil posted in December 1986, though, suggested he was
> > > by then working at Fairlight (makers of the Fairlight CMI digital
> > > music workstation) and had ported it to OS-9 (whether 6809 or OSK, I
> > > do not know). This is still not the same program we know on the CoCo,
> > > because it doesn't read a /DD/Sys/Make.default data file for its
> > > defaults -- they're compiled in.
> > >
> > > Still, some interesting history there that I will have to integrate
> into
> > > CoCoC.
> > >
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