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From: atheybey@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Question about Manx C updates
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 12:52:49 EDT
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I just called Manx about getting an update for my relatively ancient
(February 86) 3.20a version of their C compiler.  I was told that
there are two types of update that I can get.  I can send them two
disks and get a free "standard update," which consists of "bug fixes
and 1.2 AmigaDOS support."  (These are more-or-less correct quotes.)
Otherwise, I can pay $50 for the "enhanced update" which apparently is
3.4a complete with the utilities make, diff, grep, vi, etc.

Unfortunately, the person on the phone could not tell me exactly what
the difference between the two updates is.  If the difference is only
the utilities (which weren't included in my original "Developer's"
version), I certainly don't need them (the PD make I have is
supposedly better than Manx's anyway).  However, the above quote about
"bug fixes" seems to imply that I will just be getting a fixed 3.2
compiler, rather than 3.4.  The problem is that the person I talked to
didn't really know the difference between the updates, and only could
read the same words about bux fixes to me again (along with the blurb
about 3.4 contained in Manx magazine ads).

If I am going to get an update, I want 3.4.  I would not be especially
happy with paying $50 for it, but if that's what it takes I will do
it.  Does anyone out there know for sure what the difference between
these two updates is?  (Someone must have done this before me--I must
be the last person who only has 3.2.)

Email is probably appropriate for answers, unless the replier thinks
otherwise.

thanks,
Andrew Heybey
atheybey@ptt.lcs.mit.edu