This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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C Beginner
Message #108409
Fran- I tried the assignments you suggested, but I'm still not getting anywhere. I still get a requester asking for volume ENV:. I'm pretty ignorant of environment variables and such, I don't speak UNIXese. I found this extra(?) doc buried in the lib directory here is an interesting segment: INSTALLATION…
C Beginner
Message #108408
Tom- Yea, I made a lot of assignments, some of which were admittedly stabs in the dark. As usual, I started out very methodicly and ended up in a frenzy of crazed CLI combinations, making it very difficult to say just what I tried and what I did not. Anyway,…
C Beginner
Message #108407
Mike- Thanks for the answer. That does shed some light on this and other matters. You see, I'm not only new to C, I'm also new to DOS 1.3; in fact, I don't have DOS 1.3! I have the arp library that corresponds to it. I've read all the docs…
C Beginner
Message #108406
Betty- Ubetcha. Hey, maybe you can straighten me out on something. When I read these messages, there is always a sort of referrence to the original message to which the sender is replying: B 08-Jun-90 22:32:33 Sb: #107998-C beginner Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337 To: Steve Jones 72040,1511 To what degree…
C Beginner
Message #108405
(cont) time limits there? I blew my initial logon and lost my password (I know, I know). It was on a macro and it I neglected to save it. I ALWAYS write that sort of thing down now. Anyway, I'm Lsteve Jones on Doctor's Inn now. That board really throws…
#C Beginner
Message #108404
Fran- Now THAT's a responce. I believe you hit the nail squarely on the head. First off, I needed to know what to focus on first. I tried so many assigns and created so many directories in so many combinations that I couldn't honestly tell what all I've tried. I'll…
#Cinner
Message #107998
Betty- Thanks once again. Your method was somewhat more graceful than mine, but I managed to get all those goodies out of their box. I tried to use lhunarc selectively, which, for some didn't work right. What it did, however was extracted all of the directories from the archive; at…
#C Beginner
Message #107997
Tom- I sure appreciate the responce. To be more specific, I'm having trouble merely setting up. The number of files and the similarities of their dir names and extensions has me a little intimidated. I mean, I understand a little of the fundamentals, includes are the headers that go in…
NOISE
Message #107996
Jim- Thanks. I believe that the archive itself must be the problem. At any rate, I've given up on PDC for the moment and have turnned my attention to DICE by Matt Dillon. Wish me luck. Thnx Steve
#C Beginner
Message #107952
{Help- I'm struggling to learn just the basics of C. It seems I've been doing nothing but spinning my wheels. Do people really go out and spend hundreds on a compiler BEFORE they even know the language? If not, how do they learn? I've read a few C books and…
#NOISE
Message #107835
Jim- I'm using the Z protocol and I suppose you could be right. My reasoning for thinking that noise was ruining my DL was that with parity checking only, my understanding is that two parity errors would offset each other causing them to be unnoticed. As far as CRC checking…
#C beginner
Message #107834
I am trying to learn C. I'm trying to do so without spending the money on a commercial package. I tried ZC, but couldn't get it to work. I tried several times to download PDC from a local bbs, but due to line noise (another nightmare, and I don't have…
NOISE
Message #107642
I'm having a very difficult time DL'ing any files due to, I assume, noise. I have tried stepping down to 1200 baud but even then, I get so many errors that some get by error checking. I have tried a good number of times to DL a file, PDC_BIN.ZOO from…
#Compiler help
Message #105976
Don- Thanks for the information. I have some more specific questions if you'd be so kind. As I mentioned, I'm using the Sozobon compiler ver 1.01. Here's a code example: #include #include main() { printf("If I read this I will have succeeded!\n"); } That's about as simple as I could…
Jrcomm
Message #105961
Rick- I was looking at a capt file and noticed the following sentence: " But that does not necessarily mean that I'm overlooking something obvious, I'm pretty new to this." Boy does that sound arrogant for someone who's asking for advice! Ofcourse it was a typo, I meant to say…
Jrcomm
Message #105918
Rick, I appreciate your attention to my situation. As a matter of fact, I have set to 7E1. I've tried everything I could think of. But that does not necessarily mean that I'm overlooking something obvious, I'm pretty new to this. I'll try to describe the problem more completely. As…
#PD Compiler help
Message #105916
I'm really going crazy. I'm trying to end up with something I can learn C with. I'm just starting out. I've been reading what I can find on the subject, but I can only absorb so much without getting any hands-on. The problem is, it almost seems that you have…
#terminal help
Message #105821
f*i]x{w3 I need help. After using JRComm for more about a week without any problem, suddenly- problems!. For awhile, I was getting past the loggon and immediately got screens of garbage; a screenfull for every CR. I couldn't even loggoff. I messed with some settings: I enabled "strip high bit"…
spreadsheets
Message #33732
Just dl'ed scalc the other day. It seems pretty cool, but devoid of documentation. Does anyone know of such? I also have a sneaking suspision that it doesn't read/write 1-2-3. Is there such a PD animal for the Amiga? I'm a student forced to use… well you know, the standard…
#help with shell/dos
Message #105696
I still have AmigaDos 1.2. I've added occasional commands from various sources and just included the arp 1.3. I was hoping I could get a little information about shells. All I know is that they're an alternate OS and, from what I understand, they act kind of like batch files.…
#help with commands
Message #105695
Is it possible to use wildcards with commands? Like: "dir spreadsheet.*" or "dir spreadsheet.#?" Just wondering. Also, is there any way that you know of to re-select a path for a down loading file once the down load has been initiated? I use JRcomm and select CIS B+. Sometimes the…
PCQ and Sozobon c
Message #105586
I've just obtained two PD compilers, PCQ (Pascal) by Dennis Quaid and Sozobon C by Johann Ruegg (modified by Joe Montgomery). I have only the most fundamental knowledge of either language. The "beginning" type examples of pascal source that I have almost all include real variable types. Unfortunately, PCQ doesn't…
PCQ pascal compiler
Message #105460
Does anybody have/use PCQ by Dennis Quaid? I'm trying to pickup a little pasca( I only know some BASIC). It seems the compiler doesn't support real variables. I didn't see any read commands in the code that came with it. How do you get any data to it? If anybody…
#help – DL'ing/archiving
Message #33570
help- I'm knew to telecomputing and I'm having a tough time I down loaded the file Whap!1.9.lzh and I can't unarchive it. I downloaded a file archiv but my amiga tells me that it's not an object module, although it seems to have d/led ok What's wrong? Also, is there…
#finding and downloading
Message #105281
I'm new to telecomputing. Can someone direct me as to how {to find and dl some compression files?