Programming Support Environment:
Windows 95 tools to support software development

Applies to: GCC-1750 Version 1.0 and above.
Last updated: Friday May 03, 2002.

SUMMARY

On Windows 95 and Windows NT there is no programming support environment that comes with the operating system. You can create programs using Notepad, or the DOS command 'edit', but there are better tools if you know where to look.

You should be aware that Windows 95 and DOS use an unusual convention for the end of a line. On UNIX-like systems, the end of a line is represented by a single newline character, usually written '\n', and represented by the value 10. This is 'line feed' (LF) in the ASCII character set. On Windows and DOS, the end of a line is marked by the character pair CR-LF.

In general, GCC-1750 works with either convention since the CR character is treated as white space.

Windows native tools such as Notepad do not work with the UNIX convention. However both of the following tools understand both conventions, and can save a file for Windows or UNIX.

PFE

The programmers file editor (PFE), from Lancaster University, provides many of the features you will need in an editor. it also allows you to run the compiler from the menu bar.

Textpad