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From: gwe@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: C Language Postings (Re: Man Perfects The Amiga, Robotroff)
Message-ID: <3488@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 12:34:57 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3488
Posted: Fri Mar 27 12:34:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 16:41:51 EST
References: <2804@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwe@cbosgd.UUCP (Bill Thacker)
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Organization: AT&T Network Systems , Columbus, OH
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Summary: Go ahead, MAKE my day

In article <2804@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
A mysterious, abeit neat-sounding program called robotroff. With a really
great lead-in, so any Amiga owner is chomping at the bit to see it work

But then (loud organ chord in a minor key):

>	Anyway, I think you'll like this one.  Hope you haven't thrown away
>your Manx 3.20a compiler yet.
>
>					Schwab

Curses! Foiled again !

Now, I've been reading this net long enough to know that Manx and Lattice are
both C compilers. I've now communicated my sum total knowledge about C (except
that "make" causes the compiler to do its thingie and put everything into
a bunch a gibberish that the Amiga (but not I) can understand. Which isn't too
bad, because neither of us can understand the file before make does its thing).

That's it. I'm coming out of the closet. No more hiding, pretending to be 
something I'm not, trying to conform to society's norms. The big confession:

I PROGRAM IN BASIC !       aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!

Actually, I'm not exclusively BASIC. When the going gets tough, and I'm with
a consenting flowchart, I'll use FORTRAN.

I think my point should be obvious. This is not a flame, cause there's no
way I can beef about free code being posted to the net, even if I can't do
anything with it. I'd even consider buying a C compiler just to use the 
downloads, but I'd have to buy at least two versions of Manx , Lattice,
and Red (Red C compiler.... get it, Red Sea ! Hahahaha ?? Okay, never mind)

So now for the biggie. Is there anyone in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio
who downloads and compiles this stuff on a regular basis, and who I could
{beg, bribe, coerce [pick one]} into mailing them to me (for a modest fee)
on a regular basis ?

I know Fred Fish assembles (oops, bad use of another computer term) these,
as well as others, on a periodic basis; still, the several months of lag
can be pretty frustrating. (Thanks, anyway, Fred; your disks are one of the
reasons I bought mi amiga in the first place. Are you any relation to 
Bert Kersey at Beagle Brothers ?  :-)

Anybody out there want to take a poor, uneducated user under their wing ?




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