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- From: holiday@bnr.ca (Matthew Holiday)
- Subject: Re: GNU and MPW Shell?
- Message-ID: <C0JoIH.JuE@news.rich.bnr.ca>
- Sender: holiday@crchh82 (Matthew Holiday)
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:59:05 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan8.000511.322@physc1.byu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan8.000511.322@physc1.byu.edu>, seth@physc1.byu.edu writes:
- |> Hi again. All I know about MPW is that it is expensive, and that you get it
- |> from APDA, and that it consists of a shell and several compilers. I have seen
- |> mention made of several GNU things, or gcc, or whatever, which are supposedly
- |> free, and which use the MPW shell. At least, as far as I have deciphered from
- |> other posts.
- |> Big Question: Is there a way to get the MPW shell and these gnu things, or
- |> whatever is available like compilers, emacs, etc, all for free? I would be
- |> interested in seeing just what it is and playing with it a bit. Is it possible
- |> to use this stuff (legally) without having to buy anything? I am not interested
- |> in the standard MPW stuff, as I am happy with THINK and THINK's MUCH lower cost
- |> but I am curious about this gnu stuff et al.
- |> Thanks in advance,
- |> Seth Leigh
- |> BYU Physics Dept.
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- There was a copy of the MPW 3.2.2 shell on ftp.apple.com, but it's only legal
- for those who've already forked out for MPW --- it's a bug fix upgrade. You'll
- need to pay APDA $150 for the MPW shell by itself. On the other hand, without
- MPW C, you may not be able to build gcc stuff for MPW --- Think C won't work.
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