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From: nrjwong@lion.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU tools on Mac OS?
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Date: 28 Mar 90 00:40:11 GMT
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In article <1730002@aspen.IAG.HP.COM> dlw@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
>Has anyone ported the GNU environment to the Mac OS?
>
[Stuf Deleted]
>	etc.
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>It would be a much cheaper way to end up having C++ on one's machine as well
>as some other nice tools. Could Think C be a starting point to moving this
>stuff to the mac...FSF's opinions of Apple notwithstanding? 
>
>Just curious,

Hey great, gcc on the mac. Alright. Now let's see if it can compile
Nethack 3... (MPW chokes like when I drink strong liquor :-))

If sed, awk, egrep have been ported,  then where are they?
Can I ftp them from somewhere?

I've got Bison working kinda as a stand-alone app (only works once,
then it starts spewing garbage).
Flex just barfs and produces system errors.

I've also got GNU Diff 1.14 up. Handles only text files.

Tried to get patch running but it barfed and almost took my hard drive
with it!

Oh. Nethack 3 too. Sorry, couldn't resist. :-)

THINK C is one way of getting the stuff over, but I think MPW
is a better platform for the stuff, since you can do pseudo-pipe, etc.

Johnny Lee
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