_Thompson Toolkit_ version 1.5 available for DOS and OS/2

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4 total messages Started by Steve HASTINGS Fri, 15 Feb 1991 18:17

#2423

Author: Steve HASTINGS
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 1991 18:17

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The _Thompson Toolkit_, version 1.5, is now available for DOS and OS/2 from
Thompson Automation in Portland, Oregon.

This is an attempt to blend the best features of UNIX with the best
features of DOS and OS/2.  IMHO, it works.  I like it much better than the
MKS utilities.

The shell itself is a hybrid, based on Bourne but with some csh and ksh
extensions.  It has csh-style history, *and* command-line editing with
arrow keys like DOSEDIT, *and* all the DOS and OS/2 keys (e.g. F3 for last
command, F5 for stash current command in history without executing) all
work.  It has aliases like csh, but does not have functions like ksh.
I have used the DOS version of this shell to unpack SHAR archives, and I
use the manual to the shell as my UNIX reference for writing Bourne shell
scripts, so I rate its compatibility quite good.

Unlike the MKS utilities, this shell does not treat "c:" and "c:/"
identically; in other words, this shell does not force you to type
complete paths, but instead honors default drives just as DOS and OS/2
do.  This is important when you use many network drives with long paths!

The shell also has outstanding online help: you press F10 to access
it.  If you just press F10, you get a tree of help sorted by subjects;
if you type a command and then press F10, you instantly get help on
that specific command.

It comes with a full set of UNIX-style utilities: find, grep, sort, uniq,
more, cat, etc.  Some of these have minor extensions I have not seen
elsewhere, like the -r options to mv and cp.

This product was written by Pat Thompson.  He also wrote PolyAWK, an
excellent version of AWK sold by Sage Software.  If you buy _Thompson
Toolkit_ from Thompson Automation, you can get a package deal that
includes PolyAWK for a good price.  PolyAWK includes the PolyAWK
interpreter; the PolyAWK Development Kit includes both the interpreter and
a compiler.  The compiler makes standalone bound .EXE files that can be
distributed without royalties.

Here is pricing information that I believe to be accurate:
Thompson Toolkit for DOS				$99
Thompson Toolkit for DOS and OS/2			$149
PolyAWK bought with Thompson Toolkit			add $50
PolyAWK Development Kit bought with Thompson Toolkit	add $150

Thompson Automation can be reached at:
5616 SW Jefferson
Portland, OR  97221
503/224-1639

Unfortunately, they have no email.

I have no connection with Thompson Automation, except for being a happy
customer.  I have used the DOS version of the Toolkit (formerly called
PolyShell) for years, with great happiness.
-- 
Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings    ===^=== :::::
uunet!microsoft!steveha  steveha@microsoft.uucp    ` \\==|

RC Problem

#2434

Author: John Schumacher
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 20:18

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I am embarassed to ask this but I am having problems getting RC to work.
I just installed a new version of OS/2 (1.3EE) and the OS/2 Toolkit (IBM 1.3)
on my system. I tried to recompile several programs but RC keeps giving me
the following error message:
	EXEC of RCPP failed: No such file or directory.
I checked my include paths and path environment variable and they point
to the executable for the RC compiler (and RCPP) as well as all of the 
file included in my resource file. The message doesn't tell me exactly what
it can't find and although I am sure it is something stupid on my part I
at my ends wit. Any suggestions would be of great help.

John

Re: RC Problem

#2435

Author: David Bolen
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 16:59

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In article <19349@brahms.udel.edu> 09710@brahms.udel.edu (John Schumacher) writes:

>I am embarassed to ask this but I am having problems getting RC to work.

Don't be embarassed by this - when it works RC is ok, but it's definitely not
a winner in the useful error message department when it doesn't.

>I just installed a new version of OS/2 (1.3EE) and the OS/2 Toolkit (IBM 1.3)
>on my system. I tried to recompile several programs but RC keeps giving me
>the following error message:
> EXEC of RCPP failed: No such file or directory.
>I checked my include paths and path environment variable and they point
>to the executable for the RC compiler (and RCPP) (...)

Well, I can't be positive about 1.3, but I know with the 1.2 toolkit there
was a problem with the resource compiler that if the directory containing
RCPP.EXE was more than 128 bytes (or so) down your PATH specification, it
couldn't find the file to load.  So if you have a very long PATH set up, try
moving the directory containing the toolkit binaries earlier in the PATH and
see if the run succeeds.

--
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Re: RC Problem

#2436

Author: John Walker
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 21:20

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In article <19349@brahms.udel.edu> 09710@brahms.udel.edu (John Schumacher) writes:
>I am embarassed to ask this but I am having problems getting RC to work.
>I just installed a new version of OS/2 (1.3EE) and the OS/2 Toolkit (IBM 1.3)
>on my system. I tried to recompile several programs but RC keeps giving me
>the following error message:
>	EXEC of RCPP failed: No such file or directory.
>I checked my include paths and path environment variable and they point
>to the executable for the RC compiler (and RCPP) as well as all of the 
>file included in my resource file. The message doesn't tell me exactly what
>it can't find and although I am sure it is something stupid on my part I
>at my ends wit. Any suggestions would be of great help.
>
>John
>   

	Its not something stupid on your part, its something stupid on RC's 
part. RC does not handle a PATH longer than 153 characters. If you have the
location of RCPP.EXE in the first 153 characters of your path then RC will
work.

					- John


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