Welcome to Commercial Dice C V3 Tutorial
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This  version  of  Dice C is a cutdown version of Dice C V3 Commercial.

It  has  been  produced to help learn how to use the C programming language
and  to  give  the  readers  of  Amiga  Shopper  an opportunity to sample a
commercial C programming package.

The  licence  for  this  cutdown  version  does  not entitle you to produce
commercial  programs nor to use it in your workplace.  It has been supplied
solely for the private use of Amiga Shopper readers.

The files on these disks are copyright of one of the following:-

Obvious Implementations Corporation.
Fourth Level Developments.
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
Or as indicated in the programs.

The Commodore include files are
Copyright 1988-1994 Commodore-Amiga Inc. All Right Reserved
Distributed under licence from Commodore.

The files on these disks may not be incorporated in other works.

This  disk  has  been  assembled  by  Fourth Level Developments to whom all
enquires  regarding  the  contents  should be addressed.  The disk has been
duplicated  by  Amiga  Shopper  and  if  you have an error on your disk you
should contact Amiga Shopper.

Thanks to OIC for giving the distribution rights for these disks.

This  package is useable for compiling small C programs and has a number of
limitations:-

                Only small library modules are included.
                No Bitfields
                No floating point
                No pragmas
                No register variables/arguments
                The maximun executable program size is 40K
                Each source file can only have upto 4 procedures

The following tools are also only in the full version of Dice C V3

	RCS		-	A revision control system
	AME		-	Advanced Micro Emacs
	DiceCache	-	Speeds up compiling by caching 
				the include files.
	DiceHelp	-	Full online help system.
	Includes	-	Full includes for OS1.3/2/3
	Libraries	-	Full library source code
				Both large and small modules
				Both register and stack modules
  	DProfile	-	Code profiler
  	
  	Plus lots more, see the Upgrade file on disk 3.
		

You  should  still  be able to compile and link your own small programs and
learn  how to program in C.  If you are serious about C programming we hope
you will consider purchasing the full version.

If  you  want  to  get  started straight away, just boot of disk 1 and then
double  click  on  VMake.   Select Open and then click on the HELLO drawer.
Click  on  HELLO.DICE  and press Ok.  You should now see the HELLO.DICE and
hello.c  will  have  appeared on the VMake screen.  Click Run and then Dice
will  compile the program and run it, you should see the text 'Hello World'
appear.

If  you  want to install the package onto hard disk then boot as normal off
your  hard drive, put disk 3 into the floppy drive and click on Dice3:  and
then click Install-Dice-Hd.

The three floppy disks contain:-

Dice1:

You  can  boot off this disk if you don't have a hard drive.  You will need
at  least 2 floppy drives so you don't have to swap disks all the time.  If
you  have enough memory you can diskcopy disk1 into rad disk; then boot off
rad.

           bin/dcc         -       The CLI interface to Dice C
           bin/dc1         -       Dice Compiler
           bin/das         -       Dice Assembler
           bin/dcpp        -       Dice Pre-Processor
           bin/dlink       -       Dice linker

           bin/dme         -       Dice Editor

           bin/VMake       -       Visual Make      (Dice GUI)
           bin/VOpts       -       Visual Options   (Part of VMake)
           bin/wbrun       -       Workbench Run    (Part of VMake)
           bin/makeproto   -       Makes Prototypes (Used in VMake)

           bin/dmake       -       Dice Make
           bin/touch       -       Updates Date Stamps


           config/..       -       Dice configuration
           rexx/..         -       Dice rexx scripts.



Dice2:

           include/..      -       Dice and Amiga includes for WB2+.
                                   N.B. The comments have been removed from
                                        the includes to save space.

           dlib/..         -       The basic Dice link libraries.


Dice3:

           examples/..     -       A few examples (Load with VMake)
           docs/..         -       Manuals.
           Readme          -       This file
           UpGrade         -       Information on the full version of Dice
           Install-Dice-HD -       Run from WB to install to Hard Disk


			A Note for Hard disk Users

 	If you have a problem with VMake not finding DMake then add the
        following line to the file "s:shell-startup"
        
	        path dcc:bin add

Have fun.

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Dice C V3 is distributed by Fourth Level Developments:

Email: dicecsales@flevel.demon.co.uk
 Tel:  0117 955 8225
 Fax:  0117 955 9157

If you have email access you may also subscribe to the Dice C mailing list
by sending an email to:

emailurl@flevel.demon.co.uk

with the following lines in the body of the message:

subscribe dice me@my.domain
end
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
               Replace me@my.domain with your email address. If you don't
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