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Subject: GEM for Sozobon C
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Date: 1 Nov 88 08:49:00 GMT
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From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)


I've had a beta copy of the (free!) Sozobon C compiler for a month or so.
I'm quite pleased with it, but it has one glaring deficiency: no GEM.

After drinking a mondo quantity of coffee, and with the help and
encouragement of Dale Schumacher and John Stanley, I managed to get an AES
library put together. I have not tested most of it, and have not yet
implemented a couple of minor functions, but I do have dialog boxes
working, the file selector popping up, resource files loading*, the menu
bar displayed, etc.

I have not yet started coding a VDI library, although I have been doing
some groundwork for it.

Since I am not a registered Atari developer, I don't have easy access to
the information I need to complete this project. I've had to dig it out of
the backs of various books and from a few public-domain source code and
doc files that I've found.

I would like to appeal for some assistance. I don't want to reinvent the
wheel more often than is necessary. If you know of any public-domain
header files, documentation or other resources that would help me with
this project, I would appreciate receiving them. I am particularly
interested in anything on Line A.

Please do not send me anything that is proprietary, copyright, secret or
otherwise improper for distribution.

When they (seem to) work, the libraries will be released as to the public
domain, with sources -- none of this copyright stuff you see nowadays.

I already have Mark Johnson's libraries. I've been VERY careful not to
copy any of Mark's code; my AES stuff works quite differently (and was
derived from different published data). However, Mark deserves a hand for
having published his work. Without his GEM library, I'd have assumed this
project to be impossible, and without his C compiler, I'd have not learned
the language in the first place.

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 *I'm using the DRI Resource Construction Set, which I purchased from
Merlin-Computer GMBH in W. Germany. The blasted thing is buggy but usable.



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