[Coco] "C" Compiler update project

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

I know that you may not want to hear this along with many others, but I have
many Windows editors that will handle the conversion of line endings, the
one that appears to quickly do the job is simply "WordPad' from Windows
Vista. The primitive OS9 apparently is changing CRLF to OS-9 format without
my asking now that I think about it.

The ConText editor has options for:

DOS (CRLF)

Unicode

UNIX (LF Only)

Macintosh (CR Only)

Should any other character be used then at worse case SED can be used to
change it to a more normal line ending, but ConText and other editors will
do the job in most cases.

Perhaps you might start to understand why I am doing most of my work in
Windows, actually using Lotus Wordpro so I can color the text and then have
it stripped when saved as txt.

I traced my error with the old version of c_prep to clicking on the box
"Don't Copy" when I should have clicked on the box just above, "Copy and
Replace" which was my intent.

I am very frustrated with the Colorful SLED text editor and I wrote it. Even
if I created the Windows I had on my last system so that two or three edit
sessions are on the same screen, there is no clipboard to transfer text from
one edit session to another. (Don't try that with the other SLED.)

I remember coding Colorful SLED so that it did something useful with most
files, you might try it. I even use it to look at strings in binaries.

When I copied my defs files to /DD/DEFS after twenty years I wondered what
might have changed in NitrOS-9. This my interest in comparing against the
files used today.

SHF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] "C" Compiler update project


> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:55:05PM -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>> Sorry, I thought about including more but decided not to. (I was working
>> on
>> the longer post at the same time and I really wanted the main message to
>> be
>> "I think that we need to vet the header files and libraries.")
>
> I believe I've mentioned all the header-file bugs I know of:
>
> 1)Some of Krieder's headers don't end with a \r, so the last line isn't
> read.
>  (This is a real PITA to fix under OS-9!!!  The only editor I found
> that would read the last line was dynastar, and then it wouldn't
> actually let me add a cr to the end of the line.  I had to add spaces,
> save the file, then go in with ded to change the spaces to
> carriage-returns.)
>
> 2)Ansifront wants a proper declaration of fopen in stdio.h FILE *fopen()
>  (Which is just good practice anyway, pointers are not ints!)
>
> 3)atof()'s declaration in stdlib.h should be double atof() no float.
>   (But I don't remember _which_ stdlib.h mine is based off! :-()
>
> Willard