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From: chiu@princeton.UUCP (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Help with Manx C
Message-ID: <805@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 18:04:37 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 27 18:04:37 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Jul-86 21:19:30 EDT
Reply-To: chiu@princeton.UUCP (Kenneth Chiu)
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Organization: Princeton University Computer Science Department
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Well, I finally bought a compiler.  Now I can do something real programming,
instead of just playing around.  I have run into a few things that might
be bugs, though.  If any who has the Manx compiler wouldn't mind some
correspondence, I would like to compare notes with some one when I run into
a problem.

1.  The z editor doesn't seem to recognize :s/pat/repl/ commands.  This is
    quite a disappointment, since I use global substitutions sometimes.

2.  The z editor also doesn't seem to recognize an options file.  I tried
    putting a z.opt file in the current directory and trying to define
    ZOPT in the environment.  And in the file I tried "ts=8", ":ts=8",
    ":set ts=8", "set ts=8", etc.

2.  Many of the amiga functions (such as Lock) are defined: struct Lock *Lock().
    I can't find such a structure defined in any of the .h files.  I did find
    struct FileLock, though, and the Lattice compiler seems to define as
    struct FileLock whatever the Manx compiler has as struct Lock.

3.  "grep -f BPTR foo.h" will not find "BPTR" in foo.h.  "grep -f bptr"
    will find "BPTR," though.

4.  Their bulletin board for technical support doesn't answer.  Maybe they
    need some technical support too. :-)
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Kenneth Chiu                                              UUCP: princeton!chiu
Princeton University Computer Science Department        BITNET: 6031801@PUCC