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to: Paul Edwards
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1993-11-09 11:18:02
subject: Re: CXL ECHO

Hi, Paul.

PE> MM> What do people recommend as a good general purpose C
PE> MM> library?

PE>CXL was, but you can't get it any more.  If I was starting out again, I'd tr
PE>to find DFLAT.  It's meant to be Public Domain.  And before
PE>you say "that means there's no support", I found that Chip
PE>expected you to debug his code yourself anyway.  I
PE>personally have invested a lot of time with TCXL, and have
PE>always struggled on with it, because I didn't want to learn
PE>something else (I only use it for a simple application
PE>myself).  If I manage to obtain DFLAT, I'll make it
PE>available on my board.  David Nugent is meant to have
PE>ported it to OS/2, but I don't get ACH yet, and I can't
PE>FREQ from Michael Butler, so I'm waiting for David Begley
PE>to finish his exams to get that.  BFN.

Do you mean DFLAT that was described in DDJ? I have DDJ files here up to
about July this year, many seem to contain DFLAT, presumably
progressively refined versions.

Tell me if that's what you want, & I'll upload the relevant ones to TML.

Regards, FIM.

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