Sorry to take BaCon fans' time --- Looks like it had nothing at all to do with BaCon. It seems to have been local trouble with file 'as' : I got input/output error by just going 'md5sum as' (nluug version). md5sum was OK with 'wary' version -- and, later with Slacko version from ibiblio. FIND A GOOD...

I'm in love with Puppy!! What other OS would let me do what I did yesterday, all for free! I got a tip that Wary would help. So I d'loaded the Wary devx and iso (from the slow website. I had some tea while it came down!) and did the drill. I'm still a clueless newbie - I don't really get it - but, n...

Thanks for advice, L18L - I checked my devx .. I confess I didn't often check md5sums! I d'loaded a 'fresh' Slacko 5.4 iso and devx from ibiblio (slow) Ditto from nluug (Netherlands) - much faster. The nluug devx gave me the "wrong" md5sum. - I tried again, got the same "wrong" m...

My hi.bac has developed a problem now! I'll check it later. ! Oh dear! So I used hug.bac (also lifted out of the documentation). Similar to your tip, I typed bacon hug.bac ---- got "input/output error' I tried bash bacon.bash hug.bac and got lots of convertor messages, ending: Converting 'hug.b...

With apologies! More on 'BaCon converts but won't compile': using Slacko Puppy with the right devx apparently loaded OK.-- Compiler couldn't use 'as' (input'output error) I found my assembler at /usr/bin/as and its x permissions seemed OK. If I type: gcc -B /usr/bin/ hi.bac.c then I get input/output...

Not knowing anything about your setup or degree of experiece, I'd start with the basics: 1. Are you sure your C compiler setup is OK? Can you compile a simple "Hello, world" program? 2. Have you tried just compiling a simple one-liner program in BaCon just to make sure that your BaCon set...

This may sound silly, but ... ? A long time ago I was working and had to produce technical "how-to" docs. Results were fairly useless - until I managed to recruit some "guinea-pigs" who could give me intelligent feedback on WHY they were misled or confused. After that, my 'public...

I'm (obviously) a newbie: I can get my demo.bac converted but the compiler goes:-
cc: error trying to exec '/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.7.1/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/as': execv: Input/output error

I've tried making lots of room - no good. What am I doing wrong? ... Phil