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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A VMS C compiler?
Message-ID: <921@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 07:25:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 20 07:25:47 1987
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In article <10191@brl-adm.ARPA>, eichelbe@nadc.arpa (J. Eichelberger) writes:
> It has been mentioned in various VAX-related mailing lists that there
> is a VMS C compiler available from an organization known as the Free
> Software Foundation.

> First off, is this true?

Last I heard, the FSF's C compiler, gcc, was not a VMS C compiler in
the sense that it does not accept the same language as DEC's VMS C
compiler.  I do not know whether it is a VMS C compiler in the sense of
running on VMS.

> Secondly, if this is true, how would one go about obtaining the
> compiler?

You can get it from anyone else who has it by any method agreeable to
both of you.  You can ftp it from prep.ai.mit.edu, if you have Internet
ftp access.  You can uucp it, I hear.  Failing all the above, you can
send a cheque for $150 (I think it is) to the FSF and they will send
you a tape with gcc (and lots of other stuff, probably) on it.

> Is source code provided?

Yes, as with all the FSF's stuff.

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)