Z8BHM%SCFVM.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA (04/18/86)
I have the Mix C compiler, and while the manual looks VERY good, I have yet to get my machine to read the fool disks! I have a Heath H 89 with 40 track ds disks, and that is the format I ordered from Mix, and the format that Mix says it sent me. However, I can't read the disks on the 40 track drives, nor on a recently-purchased 80 track drive. However, I HAVE successfully read the disks on a neighbor's H 89 with 80 track drives. The disks, as it turns out, are indeed recorded in the Heath 40 track format. As yet, I still have not been able to get the fool things read on my machine! The problem is driving me up a wall. As to the compiler itself, several of the folks at the Baltimore Heath Users Group think quite highly of the compiler. One caveat about the manual: The type style used in the manual doesn't distinguish between the number 1 and a lowercase letter l. This has caused some confusion. Bruce