sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) (08/24/87)
In article <4228@ncoast.UUCP>, swi@cs.paisley.ac.uk.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes: > We have 20 pc's in the department and 2 3b2's and a 3b5. The 3bx's talk > to each other using uucp. > So the ob. thing to do is to get uucp going on the ibm's. Problem, we onlky > have lattice C, and it no want to work, if you know what i mean. To save > us spending a disgusting ammount of money on ANOTHER compiler, could a > very kind person who has compiled & installed UUPC on an IBM/Clone, uuencode > up the binries and send them to me. Help is on the way! Due to high demand, we have sent off IBM PC Binaries for uupc to Brandon Allbery to be posted to comp.binaries.ibm. If the same demand is there we will look at Amiga and Atari as well. We're still looking for someone to port the Mac stuff to a non-Aztec environment. It wouldn't make sense to post the current Mac binaries because you wouldn't be able to run them without the Aztec Shell, and you don't get that without the Aztec compiler, and if you have the Aztec compiler you don't need the binaries.... We'll keep you posted. -- {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532
news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) (08/25/87)
> >We're still looking for someone to port the Mac stuff to a non-Aztec >environment. It wouldn't make sense to post the current Mac binaries because >you wouldn't be able to run them without the Aztec Shell, and you don't get >that without the Aztec compiler, and if you have the Aztec compiler you >don't need the binaries.... > From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) Path: tybalt.caltech.edu!wetter Actually, if you just change the file type to APPL it should run without the shell. Pierce Wette Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on. -------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu --------------------------------------------
sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) (08/26/87)
In article <3747@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Usenet netnews) writes: > >you wouldn't be able to run them without the Aztec Shell, and you don't get > Actually, if you just change the file type to APPL it should run without > the shell. No, this won't work! These programs are setup to run under the Aztec shell which sets up a very specific environment for them, including a special console driver to emulate (ugh) a standard terminal. It also accepts command line parameters and passes them to the program in argv. Both of these features are used. To port uupc to the Mac Finder environment using Aztec, it must be compiled and linked as a "mixroot" program, that is one that uses the screen console, but can be launched by the finder. This means we don't get command line parameters, so a small amount of code must be written to query the user for instructions. -- {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532