braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) (02/26/88)
[] I got the Laser C disks with about 20 pages of docs (photocopies of selected pages from the upcoming manual, apparently). They promised to ship the full manual "as soon as humanly possible". The system includes many new features such as a graphical shell with a multiwindow editor , including a "stdio" window, the ability to enter command lines from any window, and built-in tools like "cd", "rm" etc. The main parts of the system (compiler, linker, "grep", etc) may be configured to stay loaded in RAM (ready to run, NOT in a RAMdisk) and a disk cache is built in too. CPU exceptions are trapped and you get a message like "exception #2 (bus error) in program... probably safe not to reboot...". If you compile with the option for it, the exception handler will tell you which function the exception occured in, and which function called that one, etc. (There IS a provision for external debuggers.) More when I have time to actually try the thing... - Moshe Braner Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Megamax, Inc.