c language

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010, ROBERT PULLIAM wrote:
>
>   I am a novice programmer and purchased a book on programing in c.  Is
>   there a way to do this on a windows machine or a mac so that I can
>   compile and run the programs in the tutorial portion of the booki.
>   Also I tried it in a unix box (sco) and that will not work.

None of the SCO Unix systems I've used have a C compiler in the base
installation, but require that you buy their Development System.  After
considerable nagging, SCO did put the headers and libraries on the base
OpenServer 5.x systems which allow one to use gcc, the gnu C compiler which
is available on their Skunkware CDs and from their web site somewhere.

BTW, I highly recommend the book ``Unix Programming Environment'' by
Kernighan and Pike.  While it's over 25 years old, it has lots of good
stuff including using the ``make'' program to facilitate compiling
software.  In addition to C, it has lots on shell scripting.

Another excellent book for *nix types is ``Unix Text Processing'' by
Dougherty and O'Reilly (of O'Reilly publishing).  It has great sections on
``vi'', ``sed'', and other text processing tools.  This was available as a
free download from oreilly.com at one time, but I didn't find it the last
time I looked.  I would try bookfinder.com, my favorite site for finding
books that my be out of print (search for ``Bamboo Songs'' to find a book
of poetry by my paternal grandmother, Fay Campbell :-).

Bill
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