ejy@houxm.UUCP (E.YUREK) (04/02/85)
Has anyone tried the following software on the AT&T PC6300 with a 10 MB hard disk ? Please respond to me directly by E-MAIL and quickly (or call me collect if you so desire). Lattice C Compiler Lattice C-FOOD Smorgasbord Lattice C Cross Reference Generator Lattice Curses Unix-Compatible Screen Manager Lattice LMK Lattice Text Management Utilities Questions I would like answered: Does the above software work on the AT&T PC6300 ? Are there any "gotcha's" ? Is there any magic that needs to be done to get the software working ? User's comments - do you like the software or not, and why ? Any responses will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Gene Yurek AT&T Bell Laboratories houxm!ejy Tel: (201) 949-3753
stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (04/04/85)
Just one comment regarding Lattice's "make" utility, named lmk.
It is a joke compared to UNIX's make. We bought it as we move a
lot of software from UNIX to MS-DOS and have been using Lattice C
for almost 2 years. Well, some of our systems have more than one
or two files, but lmk won't allow the standard backslash at the end
of the line to continue statements. So you have to manually break
everything up into smaller statments as they also have a line limit
(after macro expansion) of around 80 characters. They also chose to
rename "makefile" to "lmkfile".
All in all a pretty worthless tool if you're used to the real thing.
p.s. - we called Lattice to find out about all the restrictions we
kept hitting with lmk and their response was that it was not
supposed to be the same as the UNIX make. Obviously they don't
use it internally to maintain their compiler.
Richard Stevens
Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
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