Re: Which GNO/ME and ORCA utils needed...

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <fmlinCvsGqn.I5K@netcom.com>, Frank M. Lin <fmlin@netcom.com> wrote:
> >The GNO shell/kernel is closely compatible with version 2.0 of the
> >ORCA Shell, which is included with all the 2.x languages.
> >
> >The only languages which can easily be used for GNO development are C
> >and assembly.
> 
> ORCA/Pascal and ORCA/Integer BASIC work just fine under GNO.

And ORCA/Modula-2.  My point is that you cannot easily write GNO-aware
programs in ORCA/Pascal, Modula-2, Integer BASIC or other languages,
because the GNO libraries are only supplied for ORCA/C.  These can be
called by assembly programs, but not by Pascal or Modula-2.

You can still call the kernel routines directly, but it is much easier
from ORCA/C.  Several UNIX standard library routines are provided in
the library, but are not accessible from other languages.

> If you are running 1.x of any ORCA language, I believe you just need
> to set the "lower" prefixes appropirately.  I have both ORCA/Shell
> and GNO installed on my system, they go rather easily together, and
> you don't really take that much extra space.

Likewise.  GNO can directly access an existing ORCA installation as
required, so you don't need to duplicate anything.
-- 
David Empson
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