Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows Programming Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 90 00:26:27 GMT References: <1990Jun11.110735.13581@usenet@kadsma> <1990Jun12.010850.17716@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <22139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Jun13.154100.14607@ Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com's message of 13 Jun 90 15:41:00 GMT In article <1990Jun13.154100.14607@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: Unfortunately even the traditional OS's may be changing. Sunos (BSD unix) used to include a C compiler with the OS. While it is still bundled with the latest release (4.1), it is the same old piece of crap compiler they have always had. It is non-ANSI compliant. If you want a REAL C compiler, now you have to pay for it separately. Yup, you have to pay for a tape from the Free Software Foundation, or if you can FTP, you FTP a copy of gcc from prep.ai.mit.edu. Compile it with your grody old compiler, and viola, a modern ANSI compiler, complete with source. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems