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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: More PH 1.5 problems
Message-ID: <480@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 22 Jan 91 13:37:34 GMT
References: <19300005@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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In article <19300005@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, king@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Mike King) wrote:
> Other problems I have found with the stock Prentice Hall 1.5,
> which is equivalent to 1.5.10, release are:
> 
> 6.  The ELLE sources are missing.
>          Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the standard
>          Minix version of ELLE ?
Yes, at various archives like "plains.NoDak.edu" and some MUGNET archives.
However, it is _very_ large (which is why it has not been included in the
standard distribution) and it cannot (yet) be compiled using ACK (which
is the second reason for it missing in /usr/src).

> 7.  No mention of what pc is but after experimenting and finding
>     that it tried to load prtso.s, I unpacked prtso.s to find
>     that it is pascal run time start off, so pc must be a pascal
>     compiler.
Correct.  I think I am one of the very few people who have the ACK
Pascal Compiler on their system.  "Pc" is the compiler driver of that
compiler (similar to "cc").  It is useless if you haven't got the
following files in /usr/lib:

	- pc_errors
	- pem
	- libp.a
	- prtso.s

This compiler works fine (I use it for some programming examples in
courses and such) and produces fine code.  I believe there are other
compilers from the same generator (ACK) that can be ported to MINIX,
like Modula-2 and Fortran.  Dunno for sure, though...

Fred.