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- Coronado Enterprises Turbo-C TUTOR July 1, 1987
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- READ.ME File
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- Getting Started with the Turbo-C tutorial
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- The first thing you should do is to backup the distribution
- diskettes and store the distribution diskettes away in a safe
- place. Use only the copy for all operations. Note that the file
- named COMPILER.DOC will give you explicit directions for getting
- started with Turbo C, so you should read it at this time.
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- Getting started with the TEXT diskette
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- Before you can begin study of C, you must print out a copy
- of the tutorial text. The file named PRINTEXT.BAT is designed
- to help you to do this. Simply type the name PRINTEXT at the
- DOS prompt and all of the tutorial text will be printed for you.
- When the system displays "Name of list device [PRN]:", hit the
- return key to accept the default. This batch file uses the DOS
- command PRINT.COM to actually do the printing and it has an upper
- limit of 10 files that can be queued up at once. There is there-
- fore a pause after each group of print requests to allow the
- queue to empty out, after which you must hit any key to allow
- printing to continue. If you key these commands in manually,
- you can print in the background, and be using your computer to
- do something else (provided of course that the something else
- doesn't require the printer).
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- Getting started with the SOURCE diskette
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- If you desire, a printout of all of the C files can be made
- using the PRINTALL.BAT file included. Simply type PRINTALL at the
- command prompt with the printer on and lots of paper in place.
- It will print about 150 pages including this file and some other
- definition files. You may want to edit a copy of the PRINTALL.BAT
- file to only print part of the files initially, and print the
- remainder as you come to them in the lessons.
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- PRINTALL.BAT uses the file LIST.EXE to actually do the print-
- ing. This is a program written in C, and included in your tutorial
- as an example program in chapter 14, and compiled for you to use in
- this step. Since printers are not standard there is a chance that
- LIST.EXE will not work on your printer. If it doesn't, use the
- file named LIST.COM from the other disk. LIST.COM was written to
- do the same job, but it was written in Pascal and compiled with
- Turbo Pascal. Since it uses a different compiler, it may work
- correctly on your printer. After you gain experience, you can
- debug LIST.C and LISTF.C and compile them for use with your partic-
- ular printer. If neither works, use whatever method you can to
- print out the files, if you desire to. It is not really necessary
- to print out the C example files, but sometimes a hardcopy is a
- real convenience.
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- Questionnaire on the Turbo-C Tutorial
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- What other languages have you programmed in?_______________________
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- What other languages would you like to learn?______________________
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- Did you complete the Turbo-C tutorial?_____________________________
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- Did you find it helpful?___________________________________________
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- What features would you like to see added?_________________________
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- Did you find anything missing?_____________________________________
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- At this time, Coronado Enterprises has completed tutorials on Pascal,
- Modula-2, and C, in addition to this Turbo-C specific tutorial. Other
- languages are being considered but we need your thoughts as to what
- other languages should be covered with a tutorial next. Please write
- and let us know your needs.
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- _______ Enclosed is $10.00 to help cover the cost and time of writing
- the Turbo-C tutorial which I found useful. Please send me a
- current list of tutorials.
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- _______ Enclosed is nothing, I do not wish to pay anything, but I
- would like a current list of tutorials. I have enclosed a
- stamped self addressed envelope.
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- Name ___________________________________________
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- Street ___________________________________________
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- City ___________________________________________
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- State, Zip _______________________________________
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- Mail to; Coronado Enterprises
- 12501 Coronado Ave NE
- Albuquerque, New Mexico 87122
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