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From: ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hyper C
Keywords: C
Message-ID: <1325@pbhyd.PacBell.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 89 15:45:57 GMT
References: <969@wpi.wpi.edu> <827@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton)
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In article <827@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>
>Here in Central Ohio, we got parts 0-3 on one day, and parts 4-7 on another
>(the next?  I dont remember).  So all 8 parts did arrive.  Last nite I downloaded
>all 8 parts to my machine.  I used binscii 1.01 to decode it.  I got no 
>error messages, and I was not told whether I was missing any parts, etc.
>
 detailed account of steps leading to problem deleted
>
>As for the problem being discussed, did anyone check to be sure that the
>disk that was packaged was indeed a working disk?
>
>-- 
>Larry W. Virden	 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817
>75046,606 (CIS) ; LVirden (ALPE) ; osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) 
>osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET)
>The world's not inherited from our parents, but borrowed from our children.


I have been able to sucessfully download, Binscii, Shrinkit, and run Hyper C
on my enhanced 2e with 2 3.5" drives and 2 5.25" drives.  The program has 
run fine.

It appears to be a good compiler to start to learn C.  It has some severe
limitations:  it uses it's own operating system (CDOS) and does not recognize
the 3.5 inch drives (no suprise, the program is at least 3 years old).  Lacking
the manual, it is necessary to use the DUMP program to look at the hex dump
of the various files to round up the commands, allowed data types, etc.

The shell commands are limited to: cls, ren, rm, ls, df, cp, dm, a: and b:.
The built in text editor supports find, exchange, insert, delete, move and 
copy as well as file append.  The cursor movement commands are the arrows
and the WordStar ^A, ^W, ^S, ^Z diamond.  Additional WS commands, such as
^E, ^C and the ^Q prefix commands are supported.

The complier itself does not support float types.  Char types have been 
replaced with text.  I have not been able to find support for scanf().
This is not suprising for a shareware compiler.  As I said above, it will
be good to use to dabble with C.  You are not going to write anything 
meaningful with Hyper C.

Those of you that have gotten it to run, but only have one drive, might 
want to try to take a copy of the system.master disk and try removing
files to give yourself some room to play.  I don't remember which files
are not needed, but you can certainly delete dump.c, plist.c, read.me, 
autoexecute to get started.
-- 
Larry Colton                {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!ldcol