Using Quincy 2000

It is usually more convenient to use an integrated development environment than to issue commands yourself. For this book I have modified Al Stevens' excellent Quincy environment to work with UnderC. Quincy also works with free compilers like GCC and BCC55. It saves you from having to remember (and type) the commands yourself, and it keeps track of breakpoints. UCW runs as a separate program, and Quincy sends it # commands. If, for some reason, UCW gets confused (which happens occasionally), you can shut it down and restart it separately from Quincy, and Quincy will pick up where you left it.

Figure A.1 shows Quincy 2000 in action, indicating the meaning of the most important icons on its application toolbar.

Figure A.1. Most ...

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