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From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac Utilities
Summary: Aztec C
Message-ID: <396@rna.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 89 02:03:18 GMT
References: <1005@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
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Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <1005@blake.acs.washington.edu> cent@blake.acs.washington.edu (Bob Cent) writes:
>
>Our group is making the transition to the Mac from the DEC 11/73 and there
>is one particularly difficult part in that jump.  I've grown accustomed to 
>some basic tools like FILE DUMP and FILE COMPARE, to name a couple.  I would
>appreciate hearing from anyone that could direct me to such tools on the Mac.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob Cent

You didn't mention what you were running on the 11/73, but I would highly
recommend Aztec C (from Manx Software).  The package offers not only thw MPW
shell, but Aztec's own UNIX-like shell.  If you're a UNIX junkie, you'll find
it very comfortable.  Within the AZTEC shell, you'll find numerous (about
3 dozen) mostly UNIX-inspired utilities, like "diff" (file compare) and
"hd" (hex dump).  The whole thing is very well designed and documented, and
the compiler is damn good.  It's also dirt cheap - $65 without MPW, $99 with
(from MacConnection).  Check it out!

marc

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