Re: ORCA/C is a horrible compiler

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

In article <199306080219.AA20855@Altitude.CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
> > And why did you _NEED_ to patch the compiler?  This sounds very very very
> > peculiar if you really needed to do these things to make it work.
> 
> The compiler runs silently unless its input is from .CONSOLE. Of course it
> usually is under ORCA. It is not in GNO. The patch removes this check.
> 
> Aside from enabling output in GNO without having to include "<.console" on
> the command line, it also disables an illogical restriction. I don't see
> why the compiler should run silently just because input is not from .CONSOLE,
> even in ORCA.

I suspect the problem is that no-one has opened ".CONSOLE".  This
would be the case under ORCA 1.x and GNO 1.0.  I still don't
understand why you couldn't get ORCA/C 2.0 to work properly under
ORCA/Shell 2.0.

Redirecting input from .CONSOLE will make sure it is open; redirecting
output would probably have the same result.
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David Empson                                                               
dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz                                                
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