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- From: tratclif@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tracy Ratcliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Anyone use Spinaker Power C?
- Keywords: Want to learn more about Power C for the C64.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.171720.9174@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:17:20 GMT
- References: <78889@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens
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- In article <78889@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6758b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Maverick Kopack) writes:
- >
- > While home from school, I dug out my old C64 and played around a bit. It
- >just so happens that I had a C compiler that I purchased for about $5.00 at
- >Electronics Boutique a few years ago called Power C by Spinaker Software.
- >
- >Has anyone else used this package.
-
- I'm on the net now because I got so damned annoyed bye the #$%&'$ thing I
- had to cool off...
-
- >There are a couple of things that I'm having problems with though....
- >
- >2) I can't seem to figure out what switch to use in the printf function to
- >cause force a newline. In normal C it's \n, but as we all know, the c64 doesn't
- >have a \ key! Any ideas?
- >
- The 'english pound' key produces a '\' in Power C.
-
- >3) The documentation REALLY SUCKS!
-
- ***AGREED*** Then why am I using it? I have Super C from abacus, but it's
- copy-protected, so I can't use it from my 1581, only from my (crotchety) 1571.
- If you can actually get a program to compile and link properly, Power C is
- very fast and compact. Oh well...
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