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I just read on the latest announcement in gnu.announce that various
GNU products can be used to totally replace COFF.

I am an experienced C programmer, but I do not know what COFF is
(besides what it stands for), excepth that the SCO Unix I run uses
it, and that the GNU software (sometimes) requires changes to run
with (under?) it.

I have GCC 1.40 running, but no other GNU stuff. I would like to
run G++, GAS, GLD, GDB, & ather GNUstuff. However, I have shied away
from doing this because I do not know enough about COFF to understand
the various README.ENCAP's and other files.

Could someone point me in the direction to get rid of COFF? And on how
to get the above mentioned things running under it (or without it!)?
And possibly on what COFF is as compared to what GNU replaces it with?

All help is appreciated. I believe a post response would be best, as there
are alot of COFF machines (ISC, SCO, etc.) out there and probably many
people with the same problem/question.

Thanks...

Doug

(PS: I lied... I run GNU Emacs too... What- did you think I was in the
deep dark VI ages??? :)
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