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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: //GS
Message-ID: <12798@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 May 90 18:19:05 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <7988@rouge.usl.edu> ec142123@pc.usl.edu (Leece Matt B) writes:
>1.  I know all my IBM friends can write a prog. in Turbo Pascal and then 
>    xmodem the file to the UNIX computer.  So they don't have to use the
>    terrible editor that is on here.  If I use a pascal or C compiler will
>    I be able to do the same?

I regularly transfer C source files between our UNIX systems and my
Apple IIGS.  I edit them in both places; the ORCA Desktop editor on
the IIGS is not bad, although not quite as nice as "sam" (but it
beats "vi" and "emacs" for most editing tasks).

>2.  Will I be able to launch the files form the desktop once the are
>    compiled and linked?

That depends on how you design and link them.  There are some shell
facilities that are unavailable if you build the application for the
desktop environment, so if your applications would benefit from a
more UNIX-like environment you may want to tie them to the APW shell.