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From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: GCC and RCS binaries
Message-ID: <9211@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 16:04:13 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.135146.1311@bnr.ca> <7056@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <7056@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>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 ???

>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.  [...]

Well there are two GCC ports for MS-DOS. I only have seen one, by DJ Delorie,
which comes with a DOS-Extender (yes, it is 80386 only). Available from
grape.ecs.clarkson.edu (IP 128.153.28.129) in directory /pub/msdos/djgcc.
It sure beats (in cost) the commercial alternatives!



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