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In article <1993Jan25.164110.107@roads.sa.gov.au>,\
 lawes@roads.sa.gov.au writes...
> A mate of mine told me about a public domain C compiler to run on
> VMS called GCC. Has anyone heard of it or know where I can get it?

     GCC is the GNU C Compiler, from the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
It is not public domain; there is a license (actually copyright) defining
distribution restrictions.  At the simplest level, it is available in
source format at no cost.  If you have access to anon. FTP, you should
be able to find gcc-vms at most of the GNU archive sites.  (The primary
one is prep.ai.mit.edu, but there are many mirror sites all over the world.)
There are two versions available; 1.42 is the current release of version 1,
and gcc-vms is packaged in Unix format (compressed tar "saveset").  2.3.3
is the current release of version 2, and can be built from sources using
1.42 (the sources are also in compressed tar format), or the VMS binaries
may be back available somewhere.  Those were set up to be installed using
VMSINSTAL.COM, but recently got removed to free up disk space.  I'm not
sure of the current status.

     You might try grabbing gcc-vms-1.42.tar.Z from the gnu subdirectory
at archie.au, the AARNet archives.

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu