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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: GCC and RCS binaries
Message-ID: <7056@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 01:48:30 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.135146.1311@bnr.ca>
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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janick@bnr.ca writes:
>   I would like to know if there is an ftp site that has the binaries for
>GCC and RCS for MS-DOS ???

If anyone requests it, I'll upload my modified version of RCS for DOS and
make it available on spdcc.com.  I added support for Novell usernames,
and fixed some of the filenaming logic.

RCS for DOS is currently in a state of flux.  Frank Whaley (few@gupta.com)
is currently in charge of the revisions, and has said the filenaming logic
has been ripped out and will be completely changed for version 5.6 (to be
made available in a number of weeks).  Interested parties should inquire
with Frank.

As for GCC, there isn't any such beast for DOS.  To bring up such a thing
would require a DOS extender, because GCC simply requires more memory
than 640K.  And a DOS extender is time-consuming to produce.  Bringing
GCC up against a proprietary extender (Zortech, Phar Lapp, et al) defeats
the whole purpose of having a public-domain compiler, so no one's likely
to do it until a low-cost extender becomes widespread.  (If GCC is ever
brought up under MS-DOS, I suspect it would be a 386-native version
requiring a 386 processor.)  Don't bug the Free Software Foundation about
it, because they have zero interest in MS-DOS and that's not going to
change, given their mandate to produce a Unix-like O/S of their own.

-rich