[Coco] C Compiler Website / Archive Question

[Michael Furman]

On Aug 26, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Hi, 
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> I have successfully converted the "C_Compiler_User_Guide" to PDF from:
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> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?title=C_Compiler_User%27s_Guide
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> This was done in preparation of building the "C Compiler Documentation Disk".
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> Should I have done so?


MaltedMedia has a scan of the original manual. 

ftp://ftp.maltedmedia.org/coco/MANUALS/TANDY/SOFTWARE/TANDY_OS9/OS9%20C%20Compiler.7z

I prefer to not have to deal with any OCR errors that typically occur in translation.  One particularly bad example is the user manual for the Sinclair QL.  It's almost unusable.  I don't really see value in a PDF version of a Wiki Page -- The original typesetting and formatting is gone and I can read the Wiki page any time with any web browser if I choose to by clicking on your link.

Aaron also has this on CocoCoding.  Aaron's version is using ClearScan OCR or similar to reduce the file size, so you only see the OCR errors if you cut and paste the text:

https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs/CCompilerUser%27sGuide-Microware%281983%29.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1



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> I also found perhaps the initial version of K&R's C language book in a file on RTSI, but the author is given as:
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> Dennis M. Ritchie
> Bell Telephone Laboratories
> Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 
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> Nothing is said about Brian Kernighan.
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> Is there a version of the K&R book online which can be included in the "C Compiler Documentation Disk?
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Aaron has a copy of this document on CocoCoding:

https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/docs/TheCProgrammingLanguage.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

I found a scan of the book version somewhere, but don't have a reference to it handy.