Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!ncifcrf!lhc!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NeXT Mach (was Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...) Message-ID: <1990Oct24.032345.4301@eng.umd.edu> Date: 24 Oct 90 03:23:45 GMT References: <21288@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Oct22.213553.20022@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 23 In article rgm@OCF.berkeley.edu (Rob Menke) writes: >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: (I wrote the next line) > |> > 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... Which is one reason I mentioned MPW 2.02. The above program will work fine, really! The console routines were already written in 2.02. Same with THINK C-- heck, they even give you source. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.