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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett)
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Subject: Re: MPW and the console
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:01:40 GMT
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rjohnson@seas.gwu.edu (Ray Johnson) writes:

>In our current version of MPW (vers 3.0) we try to write output
>to standard IO (such as using the writeln command in pascal).  However,
>this version does not support standard IO and displays our output on
>a dialog box that informs us that the console is not supported.

If you want to build applications... MPW 3.2 has a 'SIOW' library
that makes console input and output available.
If building MPW tools is acceptable (i.e. programs that only run under
the MPW shell), then any tool can do input and output to console, under
any version of MPW. The console is not quite standard (input is buffered),
but close enough to the "real thing" (Unix) to do the job. Check out
the options in for the CreateMake tool via commando (type CreateMake...
where the ... is an ellipsis).

>-- 
>Ray Johnson
>Internet: rjohnson@seas.gwu.edu       Phone: (202)994-6853
>The George Washington University
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Mark Lanett						mlanett@uiuc.edu
Software Tools Group, NCSA