Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!know!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!agate!ocf!rgm From: rgm@OCF.berkeley.edu (Rob Menke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Mach (was Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...) Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 90 21:16:52 GMT References: <1990Oct6.172357.18366@smsc.sony.com> <1990Oct8.091751.3053@csc.anu.oz.au> <4b5vB5e00UhBA=gi8V@andrew.cmu.edu> <1990Oct15.224912.26056@eng.umd.edu> <21288@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Oct22.213553.20022@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: TEAM CS -- Making Tomorrow's Mistakes Today! Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU's message of Mon, 22 Oct 90 21:35:53 GMT In article <1990Oct22.213553.20022@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: In article <21288@well.sf.ca.us>, loca@well.sf.ca.us (John Hoag) writes: |> > With Think C or MPW 2.02, it isn't hard at all. |> |> ...once you've written a few hundred lines of environment-handling code |> in preparation for printing "Hello World." The Mac may be a lot more difficult to program than it needs to be, but let's stick to the facts. I don't know about Think C or MPW... In MPW, if you compile a program as a 'tool' rather than as an 'application,' the stdio is redirected to and from the shell. Really nice if you want to port simple UNIX programs to your Mac... -- "Collision imminent...." | Robert Menke "Energize the force fields!" | rgm@OCF.berkeley.edu "What force fields?" | ...!ucbvax!OCF!rgm