[net.lang.c] re Waterloo C compiler

kgdykes@watbun.UUCP (04/03/85)

> From: ATSWAF%UOFT01.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Wendy Fraker)
> Date: 28 Mar 85 19:20:35 GMT
> 
> I need some example programs using the Waterloo C Compiler (don't laugh!)
> our system has it in CMS and I am supposed to become the "expert"
> consultant for it. But it seems that any functions I use for opening or
> reading files don't work properly, even though the same program works
> fine on a VAX using UNIX. Also the backslash N in a printf doesn't work
> ..all printed lines are saved until the program has finished running
> and then they all print at once. Anyone have any possible solutions (be-
> sides using something other than Waterloo C) or examples that I could try
> 
>                            Wendy Fraker (ATSWAF@UOFT01.bitnet)

Just a note from Waterloo here, that is *ONE* of the Waterloo compilers.
 
Re: all printed lines saved until end-of-program, WHO SAYS back-n should
   flush immediately????
   or are you saying even WITH a fflush(), they still wait till program
   termination??
   Also, CMS is essentially batch-oriented, I can easily see batch programs
   holding onto output until it knows its done.
 
From a lackey in the non-IBM land C development at Waterloo....

              - Ken Dykes
                Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo
                Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  N2L 3G1
                {clyde,utzoo}!watmath!water!watbun!kgdykes

josh@v1.UUCP (Josh Knight) (04/04/85)

>    Also, CMS is essentially batch-oriented, I can easily see batch programs
>    holding onto output until it knows its done.

Disagree.  MVS is clearly batch oriented.  CMS is clearly not batch
oriented.  Indeed one of the shortcomings of VM/CMS is that there
isn't any easy way to run "batch" (as in background) commands...
or do multitasking in general.****

The opinions expressed (or implied) are my own, not those of my employer.


		Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research
    josh at YKTVMH on BITNET, josh.yktvmx.ibm on CSnet,
    ...!philabs!v1!josh

**** posting was about Waterloo CMS C compiler...this is not an
unsolicited comment about VM/CMS in the wrong forum.