🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <RSW.92May12024413@flanger.cs.brown.EDU>, rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes:
> How about a new topic now, like:  How GNU software has helped me.
> We could spend our lives on the negative; why not discuss some
> of the positive for awhile.

How about this for a positive - the djgpp project.  LOTS of users have
dropped the traditional expensive 32-bit compiler for DOS in favor of
djgpp instead, which they normally get for free (some get it from a
distribution company, which distributes sources too).  Some folks have
even dropped their 16-bit compilers in favor of the 32-bit gcc
compiler, even if it isn't as "pretty".

djgpp is mostly a binary-only distribution, with the README reminding
users that distribution sites MUST have the gcc sources available
somewhere as well.  Those parts that aren't easily figured out from
the fsf sources (libg++, for example) I include.  People who want the
sources have had no problem getting them, even if they need to resort
to mailing me blank floppies.  I provide the few diffs that haven't
made it through to the fsf sources and update the binaries as often as
the FSF updates the sources, so it always matches.

Many people are happy because they can use gcc under DOS.  Many are
very happy that I took the day or so of CPU time to compile it for
them, not to mention the tens of megabytes of expensive disk space
required to hold the sources in the first place, and write down how to
install and use it.

DJ
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