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From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple Question on THINK C
Message-ID: <22264@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 Dec 90 07:07:28 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.221555.16011@groucho> hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu (Leonard Hermens ) writes:
_>                  Or you can use the UNIX compatibility code that
_>                  puts a window on the screen that acts like a
_>                  simple UNIX terminal.  All I/O is UNIX-like and
_>                  simple commands like printf will work just fine.
_>
Leonard, I guess you didn't read the message you were replying to. The
unix compatibility package is implemented on top of the Window manager
and quickdraw, and you'll need to include the correct libraries to get the
program to link.

I've written Mac programs that vary in size from ~2M bytes down to 2bytes.
(The latter was an FKEY). For most programs, you need to include the appropriate
libraries, but if you program just uses ToolTraps, and your own O.S.Trap
glue it is certainly possible to write significant programs that use no
libraries. It is rarely worth it.
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