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From: neal@mnopltd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: fsanalyze
Message-ID: <127@mnopltd.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 90 04:27:15 GMT
Reply-To: gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal
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->In article <125@mnopltd.UUCP> gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal writes:
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->>I appreciate the effort, but could you save us all some effort and note in 
->>your archive listings software which does not compile with the SCO compiler 
->>and requires the gnu compiler?
->
->This would be helpful, but you might be missing a fine point here:  The GNU

Actually, I am trying to ignore it....

->compiler produces smaller, faster code, and is free for the taking.  Appar-

No, the gnu stuff is not free.  You just get to pay for it with non-cash
resources..

->ently, the archive listing assumes that anyone who can install gcc will do
->so, and will use it as their default compiler.

Your point is quite valid, as is the position of lots of us who don't do 
that much C anymore but do want certain utlities like Elm, Fm, etc which DO
compile on the standard compiler.   If I had known the archive had the same
version I could have gotten from any of the free mail servers, I wouldn't 
have spent the phone bill doing a direct uucp. 

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