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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What compilers are AppleShareable?
Message-ID: <12647@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Jun 88 18:08:36 GMT
References: <272@uvabick.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <272@uvabick.UUCP> thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin) writes:
>
>Can somebody tell me which of the current crop of Pascal and C
>compilers/development systems will work from an AppleShare server?
>I don't mean just single-user, but multi-user as well.  
>
>Presumeably MPW won't work in multi-user mode, but what about the
>LightSpeed compilers?  And Turbo Pascal?

Your presuming MPW won't work was presumptuous.  MPW 2.0 IS MULTI-USER,
except for the Shell itself.  Put the MPW Shell and your own customized
UserStartup file on your own floppy or hard disk, and put all the rest
of the interfaces and tools and libraries on a server.  (A few changes
need to be made to the startup file for things like {AIncludes} and
{PLibraries} and the like, but these changes can also be made in your
own UserStartup file.)

Our own AppleTalk group at Apple has all of MPW, all of their sources,
and all of their objects on a server.  Each workstation only has the MPW
Shell, Startup, UserStartup, and SysErrs.err files locally.

We made sure that the compilers opened their interface files and source
files read only, and that tools could take their input from read only
files as well.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer