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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Trouble compiling flip with TurboC 1.5
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Date: 20 Jul 89 20:34:02 GMT
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Turbo C v1.5 did/does not support signals as such.  Support for that
was added with v2.0.  Rahul Dhesi posted a signals package for v1.5
that may/should provide what you need.  It should be in simtel20
archives.

In (lukewarm) defense of v1.0/v1.5, much of the missing stuff (such as
signals) was stuff that makes little sense in a single-tasking
environment.  TC's target market, and the reviewers' readers, were not
primarily UNIX gurus slumming on the toy machines, but people who lived
exclusively in the MSDOS world --- and perhaps starting to get
dissatisfied with BASICA.

Of course, I personally want TC to look as UNIX-like as possible, so
I can port stuff.  But then, the MSDOS environment is the bottleneck
there anyway...