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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GNU tools on Mac OS?
Message-ID: <10959@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 29 Mar 90 18:40:20 GMT
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In article <1990Mar28.011005.8521@athena.mit.edu> rsfinn@athena.mit.edu
(Russell S. Finn) writes:
>I recently posted versions of Bison and Flex that will compile under
>THINK C 4.0 to create stand-alone applications to comp.binaries.mac.  No
>telling how long it will take before they propagate out to the rest of
>the world; in the meantime, if you're desperate, let me know and I'll
>mail them to you.  But only if you're desperate; full source code is
>included, so they're pretty big...

So why not post it to comp.SOURCES.mac???

Some of us live on systems where the owners (rightly) have a grudge
against no-source-code software, so they don't carry the binary groups.
Why in the name of Beelzebub would people post their SOURCES to the
BINARIES group?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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