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From: demarco@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Vince Demarco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hyper C
Keywords: C
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Date: 27 Feb 89 19:52:21 GMT
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In article <1325@pbhyd.PacBell.COM>, ldcol@pbhyd.PacBell.COM (Larry D Colton) writes:
> 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.

Actually, scanf() is supported, but must be linked into a library by the user
the source to the scanf  and printf functions are on the back side along with
the OS source (which I have yet to send)...  It does have the float type but 
it is known as some other type (I can't remember off hand, but like I said,
the changes are mainly cosmetic in nature (ie. std.h rather than stdio.h))

The said sources will be sent for posting sometime this week...

Chris (posting from a friend's acct cuz I'm too lazy to go an post from
the mainframe...)

Disclaimer -> I didn't say any of this...
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