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- From: mp945587@stoat.shef.ac.uk (K A Goatman)
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- Subject: Re: Yet another New guy asking for ... :-)
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 11:52:22 GMT
- Organization: Sheffield University, UK
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- Jonas Andersen (inf94a02@mini01.vejlees.dk) wrote:
- >Daniel Kestner (LYRA@hhks.gun.de) wrote:
- >: burl4300@mach1.wlu.ca wrote on Tuesday, the 01-16-96 about "Yet another
- >: New guy asking for ... :-)":
-
- >: > I was curious if someone could email me with any ftp/www sites for a good
- >: > shareware C compiler. I have scanned this group for a couple weeks now
- >: > and have had no real inclination to download any of the various programs
- >: > previously mentioned because of the outcry they ahve recieved.
- >: > So, I guess my best bet is to explain my situation and specs and
- >: > hope for some revealing email....
-
- >: I'm also searching a good free-/shareware C-Compiler. Please send E-Mails
- >: to me, too.
- >: ## x. v3.1 ##
- >: ## CrossPoint v3.1 ##
-
- >Try GCC. I'm using this with linux - works brill ( I'd give up bc or
- >M$-vc any day, for emacs+gcc) You might not be satisfied in the start,
- >but just code and you will be!
-
- >If you use dos I don't know if you'll be satisfied. I tried it once - and
- >removed it (and my dos-partition ;). As far as I remember there has to be
- >loaded something in your config.sys to make it run (check this out, I'm
- >not sure). Also my testing time weren't very long, so.....
-
- I use GCC under DOS without any problems and it usually produces code
- which is substantially faster than that produced by BCC 3.1 or MSC 6.0.
-
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- Keith A Goatman Medical Physics and Clinical Eng.
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- E-mail : K.A.Goatman@Sheffield.ac.uk SHEFFIELD, U.K.
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