From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Don't get mad
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 12:57:56 -0700
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Chris Croughton wrote:

> No.  The nearest is the ANSI/DEC VT100-type text escape sequences,
> but even they are honoured more in name than in implementation
> (for instance the PC's ANSI.SYS does several things against the
> spec., as well as adding things).

curses packages are also available for the Mac, but I haven't checked
which seems to be the best.

> Note that the Mac is primarily a GUI system, whereas DJGPP is
> a command-line compiler and the ANSI C library functions are
> basically designed for terminal I/O or similar (i.e. straight
> text).  I don't know if the Mac includes any equivalent of
> the Win95 Console Mode programs, or the Windows DOS box, but
> I haven't seen it.

All major Mac compilers (notably MetroWerks CodeWarrior and Symantec Think
C) have pretty good ANSI C compatibility (considering Mac compilers in the
past had absolutely none).  This includes stdout routines -- a little
console window will automatically pop up.

> Do you mean produce a Mac executable (not .exe there) on a PC to
> run on a Mac?  I don't know of any cross-compilers for that -
> which it would be possible to produce a version of DJGPP which
> did it you'd have to do a lot of work (like rewriting half the
> library, as well as putting the new code generation on).

I know there are 680x0 cross-compilers for gcc, and there may be (and
probably are) PowerPC cross-compilers by now.  Unfortunately, there's a
lot more to having a Mac application that will run under MacOS than just
having a binary file with machine instructions in it.

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