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- What are the Software Tools?
-
- The programs on these disks are descendents of the RATFOR
- programs from the book,
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- Software Tools,
- by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger, published by
- Addison-Wesley in 1976.
-
- The publisher also made these programs available on
- computer tape.
- A group known as the Software Tools Users Group
- was formed to distribute, update and maintain the tools.
- The latest tape from the Software Tools Users Group
- is called the "Basic Tape" and it is from that tape
- that most of the files on these disks were taken.
-
- All of the programs on these disks are in the public
- domain.
- None of them are copyrighted.
-
- The basic tape contains 16 files which are fully described
- by the cookbook on the file named COOKBOOK on this disk.
- Read the cookbook after reading this file
- to get an overall picture of what
- is on these disks and what you may still need to do to.
-
- The original 16 files have been split into pieces which
- correspond to individual programs or, in the case of the
- spelling dictionary, to individual letters.
- This makes getting at the program you want
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- much
- easier.
-
- A major constraint in putting the programs on disks was
- a lack of CP/M directory space.
- Do not assume that just because STAT tells you that space
- is available on a disk that you can PIP many
- programs to the disk.
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- Bringing up the tools
-
- Please be aware that none of the RATFOR programs on these
- disks will work as is.
- You have essentially three choices:
-
- Path 1: You can use the tools in RATFOR without making any
- changes to them.
- This means that you will have to get a working FORTRAN
- compiler and adapt the primitives to fit your operating
- system.
- Boot the RATFOR preprocessor using RATFOR.FTN,
- then compile all the RATFOR programs.
- This is the "normal" way of making the tools work.
- If you choose this way then the primitives in BDS C
- will not do you much good except as a guide.
-
- Path 2: You can use the primitives in BDS C without making
- any (or any extensive) changes to them.
- You will have to transliterate all the tools from RATFOR
- to BDS C.
- This is no small job.
-
- Path 3: You can change the primitives in BDS C to make them
- look like the Unix I/O primitives
- (which are quite similar to the BDS C I/O routines.)
- Once again you will have to transliterate all the tools
- from RATFOR to C.
- The primitives in BDS C may form a good starting point
- for your efforts.
-
- If I were writing the primitives all over again I would
- choose path 3 instead of path 2.
- The problem with the approach I took is that the primitives
- are neither fish nor fowl:
- they are compatible neither with the RATFOR primitives
- (because it doesn't make sense to burden C programs
- with RATFOR calling conventions)
- nor with the Unix I/O primitives.
-
- Still, the BDS C primitives should make a good starting
- point if you want to follow path 3.
- The primitives show how easy it really is to do
- full I/O redirection.
- Also, there are many RATFOR primitives which, to my knowledge,
- do not correspond to any of the Unix primitives.
- An example are the symbol table primitives.
- For these primitives, one is essentially free to choose
- whatever form is most elegant and useful.
-
- Be sure to read all the .DOC files on
- on the disk labeled
- "Tools and primitives in BDS C."
- These files discuss topics of interest to implementors.
-
- Please send any comments, criticisms or improvements
- concerning the BDS C primitives to their author (me):
-
- Edward K. Ream
- 1850 Summit Avenue
- Madison, WI. 53705
- (608) 231 - 2952
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- Table of Contents
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- Here is what is on each disk:
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- Disk 1: Cookbook, table of contents, .FTN files.
-
- You should have read the READ.ME file by now.
-
- You are now reading the table of contents.
-
- The cookbook is the primary documentation for people
- who want to bring up the tools.
- It tells in detail what you must do get the tools running
- on your system.
- The cookbook makes up all of file 1 of the Basic Tape.
-
- The .FTN files on this disk are the result of passing
- RATFOR programs through the RATFOR preprocessor.
- Use the file RATFOR.FTN to boot up the RATFOR preprocessor.
- You will need these files if (and only if) you plan
- to bring up the tools in RATFOR rather than transliterating
- them to C.
- The .FTN files make up all of files 2 and 3 on the Basic Tape.
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- Disk 2: Tools and primitives in BDS C.
-
- Everything on this disk was written by Edward K. Ream.
- Do not blame the Software Tools Users Group.
- They had nothing to do with it.
-
- The BDS C disk contains the software tools primitives
- written in BDS C.
- It also contains a transliteration of the text formatter
- ROFF from RATFOR to BDS C.
- Use ROFF to format all .DOC files on these disks.
-
- See all the .DOC files on the BDS C disk for much handy
- information concerning the primitives.
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- Disks 3, 4: Primitives.
-
- These two disks contain the RATFOR primitives from file 4
- of the Basic Tape.
-
- The documentation for each primitive is now on a separate
- file.
- An easy way to print them all is to
- create a .SO file for ROFF using the files SINGLE1.SUB
- and SINGLE2.SUB as patterns.
- (The .SUB files were used to copy these disks.)
-
- Because of a lack of directory space, it was not possible
- to put the RATFOR code for each primitive on a separate file.
- Instead, the code is grouped alphabetically.
- The code for the primitives are on files PRIM-A through
- PRIM-W.
-
- The file LIBDEF contains definitions used by all the
- RATFOR primitives and tools.
-
- The primer for RATFOR and the primer for the editors
- appear on .PRM files on this disk.
- The primers are from file 14 of the Basic Tape.
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- Disks 5, 6, 7, 8: Tools
-
- These disks contain the entire contents of files
- 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 from the Basic Tape.
-
- The documentation for each tool is on a separate .DOC
- file.
- Once again, you can use the files SINGLE?.DOC as a help
- in creating .SO files for ROFF.
-
- The code for each tool is on a separate .RAT file.
-
- The documentation and code is arranged alphabetically
- by the name of the tool.
- Disk 5 contains code and documentation for tools with
- names from A though D, and so on.
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- Disks 9, 10: Spelling dictionary
-
- These disks contain the entire contents of file 16
- of the Basic Tape, a 40,000 word spelling dictionary.
- The dictionary is used by the SPELL tool.
- The spelling dictionary has been split into 30 files,
- one or two for each letter of the alphabet.
-
- The dictionary contains one word per line so it would
- be very wasteful to print it using, say, the CP/M TYPE
- command,
- but it might be amusing to use ROFF.
-
- You will notice that the dictionary needs
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- a lot
- of editing.
- It is presented just as it came from the Software
- Tools Users Group.
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- Disks 11, 12: Extra Tools
-
- These disks contain the entire contents of file 15
- from the Basic Tape.
-
- Once again, the documentation for each tool is on
- a separate .DOC file.
-
- Most of the code for the extra tools is on separate .RAT files.
- However, the files
- XXX-TOC, CTO-XXX and SET contain source for more than
- one tool.
- The files XXX-TOC and CTO-XXX contain conversion routines.
- The file SET contains set manipulation tools.