Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APW C Package vs. Orca C Package Message-ID: <14081@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 10 Oct 90 18:29:04 GMT References: Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 22 In article ghost@bucsf.bu.edu (Jay Adelson) writes: >Does the new Orca (or soon to be released orca) or the old Orca environment >include these tools and utilities (i.e. DeRez, RezEdit and GSLink)? No, current ORCA packages do not include those (although the latest do include "ZapLink", a much faster although nonscriptable linker). For future ORCA releases to include them ByteWorks would have to work out some sort of deal with Apple, who owns them. I don't know whether that is in the works, but my guess would be that it isn't. >I ask this because I'm interested in purchasing orca, but from my experience, >Orca C had no utilities to link in assembler / other code, or use >a resource editor. Granted, I could use the resouce editor from another >program (TML Pascal, Genesys) but I would rather use the latest Resource >utilities endorsed (?) by apple. ? ORCA C is the compiler, libraries, headers, and C samples. ORCA/M is the main shell, assembler, linker, etc. ORCA/C includes the desktop ORCA environment, PRIZM, while ORCA/M does not. For a complete developmentg environment you should have either APW or ORCA/M, as well as ORCA/C. Since APW is not going to be further developed, ORCA/M would seem like a better choice.