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Here's the scoop on getting the GNU C compiler for VMS. Many thanks to the
following people for their responses:

	rankin@EQL.Caltech.Edu (Pat Rankin)
	"Rao V. Akella" <RAO@moose.cccs.umn.edu>
	combstm@lester.appstate.edu (Terry M. Combs)

You can get gcc from prep.ai.mit.edu and all the other gnu archive sites.
At present, the most stable version is gcc-1.40b, which can be retrieved
as gcc-vms-1.40b.tar.Z via anonymous FTP. Note that this is a UNIX-style
compressed archive, so you'll need to get the tools that can unpack this
kind archive. I was able to get a package called VMS-TAR by sending the
following request to the NRL Archive Manager:

mail nrl_archive@nrlvax.nrl.navy.mil

with the message body being:

SENDME VMS-TAR

Since I already had a UNIX machine to uncompress the tar file, I did not
get any uncompression utilities.

Another person recommended getting gcc from mango.rsmas.miami.edu, which
has version 2.0 and/or 2.1 available. From what I've heard, version 2.0 is
extremely buggy. 2.1 is much better, but is still not as stable as version
1.4b.

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