From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org Subject: Re: Availability of several dos programs for *nix Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 17:10:36 GMT
In article <I1041905.93Feb22152622@rznb13.math.nat.tu-bs.de> i1041905@ws.rz.tu-bs.de writes:
>In article <gate.4m95yB1w165w@hstorm.hacktic.nl> north@hstorm.hacktic.nl (Ad Timmering) writes:
> Here is the list of programs:
> - Aseasy Spreadsheet
>There is a spreadsheet program, but dunno how it's called
sc comes with SLS and probably TAMU and is available on tsx-11.mit.edu and
sunSITE.unc.edu otherwise.
I got Oleo (GNU spreadsheet) to compile after some hacking, but it's "not
ready for prime time". In particular, the documentation is rather scant (a
hastily assembled --- from the looks of it --- USING file). I think I'd count
this as late alpha and avoid it.
(On the other hand, I got mine from the Dec. 92 Walnut Creek CD-ROM; it may
have a real manual and other fixes by now. Check prep.ai.mit.edu for the
latest version.)
>To plot curves, use GNUPLOT
> - DPaint II Painting/drawing program
>Try idraw
> - Turbo Pascal 5.5 Pascal compiler
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>No. That's not Pascal. Turbo Pascal is a language different from Pascal.
>But if you want Pascal (the true Pascal), there is p2c, a pascal-to-C
>converter. Use it before calling gcc, That's the same as having pc.
There is no true Pascal. The UCSD P-system used to be the closest thing there
was to one, these days Turbo Pascal is more common. Ir if you prefer, "true
Pascal" is the ANSI standard Pascal which lacks so many things that it's
effectively useless as a programming language.
p2c speaks Turbo, Berkeley pc, and several other dialects. It's worthwhile to
note that I actually got TeX 2.99 (maybe we'll upgrade someday...) to compile
from the Pascal source using p2c, although I did have to tweak the output
slightly. That last because I didn't have a Web changefile for the Pascal
version, only for the Web-to-C version, most likely.
> - Turbo Assembler 2.01 Assembler
>There is as86 and GNU as 1.38.
Why an assembler? Do you actually do assembly-level programming? If so,
you're in for a surprise... 386-mode assembler (*ix variant) looks very
different from the DOS-based 8086-mode stuff you're probably used to.
++Brandon