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- Welcome to Commercial Dice C V3 Tutorial
- ========================================
-
- This version of Dice C is a cutdown version of Dice C V3 Commercial.
-
- It has been produced to help learn how to use the C programming language
- and to give the readers of Amiga Shopper an opportunity to sample a
- commercial C programming package.
-
- The licence for this cutdown version does not entitle you to produce
- commercial programs nor to use it in your workplace. It has been supplied
- solely for the private use of Amiga Shopper readers.
-
- The files on these disks are copyright of one of the following:-
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- Obvious Implementations Corporation.
- Fourth Level Developments.
- Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
- Or as indicated in the programs.
-
- The Commodore include files are
- Copyright 1988-1994 Commodore-Amiga Inc. All Right Reserved
- Distributed under licence from Commodore.
-
- The files on these disks may not be incorporated in other works.
-
- This disk has been assembled by Fourth Level Developments to whom all
- enquires regarding the contents should be addressed. The disk has been
- duplicated by Amiga Shopper and if you have an error on your disk you
- should contact Amiga Shopper.
-
- Thanks to OIC for giving the distribution rights for these disks.
-
- This package is useable for compiling small C programs and has a number of
- limitations:-
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- Only small library modules are included.
- No Bitfields
- No floating point
- No pragmas
- No register variables/arguments
- The maximun executable program size is 40K
- Each source file can only have upto 4 procedures
-
- The following tools are also only in the full version of Dice C V3
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- RCS - A revision control system
- AME - Advanced Micro Emacs
- DiceCache - Speeds up compiling by caching
- the include files.
- DiceHelp - Full online help system.
- Includes - Full includes for OS1.3/2/3
- Libraries - Full library source code
- Both large and small modules
- Both register and stack modules
- DProfile - Code profiler
-
- Plus lots more, see the Upgrade file on disk 3.
-
-
- You should still be able to compile and link your own small programs and
- learn how to program in C. If you are serious about C programming we hope
- you will consider purchasing the full version.
-
- If you want to get started straight away, just boot of disk 1 and then
- double click on VMake. Select Open and then click on the HELLO drawer.
- Click on HELLO.DICE and press Ok. You should now see the HELLO.DICE and
- hello.c will have appeared on the VMake screen. Click Run and then Dice
- will compile the program and run it, you should see the text 'Hello World'
- appear.
-
- If you want to install the package onto hard disk then boot as normal off
- your hard drive, put disk 3 into the floppy drive and click on Dice3: and
- then click Install-Dice-Hd.
-
- The three floppy disks contain:-
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- Dice1:
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- You can boot off this disk if you don't have a hard drive. You will need
- at least 2 floppy drives so you don't have to swap disks all the time. If
- you have enough memory you can diskcopy disk1 into rad disk; then boot off
- rad.
-
- bin/dcc - The CLI interface to Dice C
- bin/dc1 - Dice Compiler
- bin/das - Dice Assembler
- bin/dcpp - Dice Pre-Processor
- bin/dlink - Dice linker
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- bin/dme - Dice Editor
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- bin/VMake - Visual Make (Dice GUI)
- bin/VOpts - Visual Options (Part of VMake)
- bin/wbrun - Workbench Run (Part of VMake)
- bin/makeproto - Makes Prototypes (Used in VMake)
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- bin/dmake - Dice Make
- bin/touch - Updates Date Stamps
-
-
- config/.. - Dice configuration
- rexx/.. - Dice rexx scripts.
-
-
-
- Dice2:
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- include/.. - Dice and Amiga includes for WB2+.
- N.B. The comments have been removed from
- the includes to save space.
-
- dlib/.. - The basic Dice link libraries.
-
-
- Dice3:
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- examples/.. - A few examples (Load with VMake)
- docs/.. - Manuals.
- Readme - This file
- UpGrade - Information on the full version of Dice
- Install-Dice-HD - Run from WB to install to Hard Disk
-
-
- A Note for Hard disk Users
-
- If you have a problem with VMake not finding DMake then add the
- following line to the file "s:shell-startup"
-
- path dcc:bin add
-
- Have fun.
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- Dice C V3 is distributed by Fourth Level Developments:
-
- Email: dicecsales@flevel.demon.co.uk
- Tel: 0117 955 8225
- Fax: 0117 955 9157
-
- If you have email access you may also subscribe to the Dice C mailing list
- by sending an email to:
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- emailurl@flevel.demon.co.uk
-
- with the following lines in the body of the message:
-
- subscribe dice me@my.domain
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- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Replace me@my.domain with your email address. If you don't
- do this your mail will be bounced!
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