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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW and the console
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.230816.11933@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 23:08:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.180140.10553@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) writes:
>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).

I assume that this is available from any MPW language. Am I correct in this
assumption? If not which languages is it available from (I'm interested in
MPW C and Pascal mainly).

Out of curiousity, how close does the SIOW library come to normal UNIX IO
and how does this coexist with the Mac environment in general?

An application "console" library is very sorely missing from 3.1. I am very
glad to hear that it's included in MPW 3.2. Now I just have to wait for
it to be released to average "Joe Smoes" like me :-)

Jess Holle