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From: schwrtze@csd2.UUCP (Eric Schwartz group)
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Subject: Re: Abacus C
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Date: Sun, 7-Apr-85 21:34:00 EST
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Why wait?  Get C Power by Brian Hilchie, available now from Pro-Line Software
of Mississauga, Ontario.  416-273-6350, or orders from USA 800-387-3208.
I've been using it for one day and it looks really ok.  Bit fields are not
implemented, big deal.  It comes with a shell which supports the commands
ls, rm, mv, pr (i.e. cat to screen), disk (i.e. send a string to the disk
device), cc, and link.  The shell also supports I/O redirection.  
CC produces a .o file which you can then link with whatever you like to produce
an executable, either standalone or callable from the shell.
There is not total equivalence of things declared pointer to char and array of
char.  I have found that you can't say
     char ch[MAXLEN];

     ch++;

which I believe should be legal C.  However if you declare
     char *ch2;

     ch2 = ch;
     ch2++;

the incrementation is allowed.