Re: a2tools for ProDOS (?)

[Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:38:51 -0400, Chris Morse wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:07:53 -0000, Rob Greene
> <greeneratcharterdotnet> wrote:
> 
>>chris@CosmicWolf.com (Chris Morse) wrote in news:3f4faeb8.13973983
>>@news.dsl.net:
>>
>>> Same thing here; not using SWT or anything, just the storage classes.
>>
>>You're using "native" cvs command-line then?  What are you developing on 
>>just out of curiosity?  (Linux/Windows/Mac/etc)
> 
> Not using any cvs.. I'm developing under Windows 2000 (actually,
> Windows 2000 running in a (Connectix) Virtual PC.  All I did was
> download your ZIP source code from Source Force and downloaded J2SE
> v1.4.2 from java.sun.com.
> 
> I wanted to play around with Linux, but was sort of turned off my
> first try.  I got Red-Hat Linux 8.0 installed on a virtual PC but when
> I went to start up the development software (GCC?) it prompted me to
> create indexes for all the help documentation.  Well, I clicked "OK"
> and it proceeded to spend the next 18 hours spitting out "+" signs and
> brief spurts of non-progress-indicating text.  After 18 hours I
> decided to just pull the plug on the system and haven't tried again
> since then.

That was KDevelop, which has nothing to do with GCC. GCC is a command
line compiler. I once had the same problem as you, but I had already
been running Linux for years. My solution was to never try to use
KDevelop again, and to stick to emacs.