DOS ain't dead

"Harry Suckow (the Copyright holder for Aztec C) has given permission for this website to redistribute Manx Software Systems discontinued Aztec C compilers for now-obsolete platforms for educational purposes by researchers and enthusiasts."

https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/compilers.htm#msdos

https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/docs/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

> "Harry Suckow (the Copyright holder for Aztec C) has given permission for
> this website to redistribute Manx Software Systems discontinued Aztec C
> compilers for now-obsolete platforms for educational purposes by
> researchers and enthusiasts."
>
> https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/compilers.htm#msdos
>
> https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/docs/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

I already use ver 4.2b for a few weeks now under Windows XP x86. I try to tinker around with some 1990 source code. I'm not a C programmer, but I think, Aztec C86 is quite complete.

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> https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/docs/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

This PDF lacks a table of contents (TOC), which makes it very hard to navigate between the 747 pages.

Within the last three days I created a TOC by hand and merged it in: https://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

The TOC itself can be found here (>7,700 lines).

Format of the TOC is compatible with pdftocio: https://github.com/Krasjet/pdf.tocgen

If you spot any TOC-related errors, e.g., typos, incorrect level of headings, or incorrect page numbers, please report here.

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> Within the last three days I created a TOC by hand and merged it in:
> https://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

Thanks!

I fed the compiler with a "real world" program - no, not JWasm, but mktables.c, supplied with Debug/X. It won't digest C++-style comments, but finally succeeded creating a working binary. A strange peculiarity of this compiler is the "string space exhausted" error msg - the default for this string space is 2000 bytes only, ridiculously small; one has to enlarge it with the -Z option.

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MS-DOS forever!

> > Within the last three days I created a TOC by hand and merged it in:
> >
> https://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf
>
> Thanks!
>
> I fed the compiler with a "real world" program - no, not JWasm, but
> mktables.c, supplied with Debug/X. It won't digest C++-style comments, but
> finally succeeded creating a working binary. A strange peculiarity of this
> compiler is the "string space exhausted" error msg - the default for this
> string space is 2000 bytes only, ridiculously small; one has to enlarge it
> with the -Z option.

Thanks for trying out!

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> "Harry Suckow (the Copyright holder for Aztec C) has given permission for
> this website to redistribute Manx Software Systems discontinued Aztec C
> compilers for now-obsolete platforms for educational purposes by
> researchers and enthusiasts."
>
> https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/compilers.htm#msdos
>
> https://www.aztecmuseum.ca/docs/Aztec_C_MSDOS_4.10C_Commercial_Apr88.pdf

Does anyone know, what happened to Bill Buckels? Mails to "bbuckels at mts dot net" return with "does not exist here".

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> Within the last three days I created a TOC by hand and merged it in:

Thanks for that PDF with TOC!