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From: chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Numerical Recipes in C for Macintosh
Keywords: collections of subroutines vs. main programs
Message-ID: <5646@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 23:24:51 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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>  Rob Tow writes:
>
>   Does anyone have any idea when a Macintosh version of Numerical Recipes
>   in C will be available?

>  Doug Gwyn writes:
>
>   It's already out -- it's called "Numerical Recipes in C".
 
>  Rahul Dhesi writes:
>
>   Actually, for each book on, about, or in, the C programing language,
>   you need a separate Macintosh version, or at least an appendix.  The
>   reason is that on the Macintosh there is no provision for supplying
>   argc and argv to a program.

  Finally, I write:

  Last I checked, Numerical Recipes was simply a collection of
  {subroutines|procedures|functions} --- no main programs to be found.
  It's up to you to provide the drivers to mix and match the procedures
  to suit yourself.  If you happen to be working in an environment that's
  so lame (1/2 :-) it won't let you get argv and argc, then you can:

    (a)  move to a new, possibly less restrictive environment
    (b)  adapt your main program to get options etc. in another way
    (c)  die


  J. Eaton                                    Not really doing anything
  UT Department of Chemical Engineering                 with chemicals.