[Coco] C Compiler Website / Archive Question

Fri Aug 26 20:55:50 EDT 2011

Hi,

I assume that you are talking about the K&R C book, as I said before, only R 
in in the PDF I found on RTSI.

Does someone have a printed copy of K&R C book?

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] C Compiler Website / Archive Question

I noticed the C Compiler manual on cococoding.com was not yet OCR'ed.
I ran it through the usual process and replaced the file previously
there with the updated version.  It did a decent job, for instance,
page 1 copied and pasted:

The ncn programming language is rapidly growing in popularity
and seems destined to become one of the most popular programming
languages used for microcomputers. The rapid rise in the use of C
is not surprising. C is an incredibly versatile and efficient
language that can handle tasks that previously would have required
complex assembly language programming.

C was originally developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories as an
implementation language for the UNIX operating system by Brian
Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. They also wrote a book titled "The C
Programming Language" which is universally accepted as the standard
for the language. It is an interesting reflection on the language
that although no formal industry-wide "standard" was ever developed
for C, programs written in c tend to be far more portable between
radically different computer system as compared to so-called
"standardized" languages such as BASIC, COBOL, and PASCAL. The
reason C is so portable is that the language is so inherently
expandable that if some special function is required, the user can
create a portable extension to the language, as opposed to the
common practice of adding additional statements to the language.
For example, the number of special-purpose BASIC dialects defies all
reason. A lesser factor is the underlying UNIX operating system,
which is also sufficiently versatile to discourage
nonstandardization of the language. Indeed, standard C compilers
and Unix are intimately related.

Fortunately, the 6809 microprocessor, the OS-9 operating
system, and the C language form an outstanding combination. The
6809 was specifically designed to efficiently run high-level
languages, and its stack-oriented instruction set and versatile
repertoire of addressing modes handle the C language very well. As
mentioned previously, UNIX and C are closely related, and because
OS-9 is derived from UNIX, it also supports C to the degree that
almost any application written in C can be transported from a UNIX
system to an OS-9 system, recompiled, and correctly executed.

If thats of use to you, enjoy and distribute any way you like, as far
as I am concerned :)

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Stephen H. Fischer
<SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Both of the two manuals I list appear to be clean perfect copies.
>
> The one from NitrOS-9 may have started from a very poor scan I did decades
> ago but a huge amount of manual editing I believe has been done to produce
> what I converted to PDF.
>
> Someone needs to step up and tell me how to give credit for some of the
> stuff I am assembling.
>
> I have not started to compare the NitrOS-9 C Compiler with my printed
> version but I expect them to match.
>
> I am unsure if I have a printed copy of K&R's C book. What I found on RTSI 
> I
> would not expect to match.
>
> If you are interested, please compare your printed books with the files.
>
> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=533#p533
>
>>> Is there a version of the K&R book online which can be included in the 
>>> "C
>>> Compiler Documentation Disk?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Aaron has a copy of this document on CocoCoding:
>
> I will check his site and if it is good add it to the C Compiler
> Documentation disk.
>
> Thanks for the help, it is looking like this project is much larger than I
> planned to do so any help is very good.
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Furman" <n6il at ocs.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] C Compiler Website / Archive Question
>
>
>>
>> On Aug 26, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have successfully converted the "C_Compiler_User_Guide" to PDF from:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?title=C_Compiler_User%27s_Guide
>>>
>>> This was done in preparation of building the "C Compiler Documentation
>>> Disk".
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dennis M. Ritchie
>>> Bell Telephone Laboratories
>>> Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nothing is said about Brian Kernighan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a version of the K&R book online which can be included in the 
>>> "C
>>> Compiler Documentation Disk?
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
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