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From: axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de (Axel Thimm)
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Subject: Re: Pros and cons of djgpp vs. emx
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:41:15 GMT
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I, axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de (Axel Thimm) wrote:

>Hello,
>I have worked a bit with djgpp, but I know that there is another dos gcc
>out there, named emx/gcc I believe. It is the C compiler used to compile
>emtex, the tex version for dos. Is anyone willing to compare those two
>against each other?
>A pro for emx might be that it supports gcc 2.7.0 while djgpp is still
>at 2.6.3, but that is already all I know about the two compilers.
Due to some request I checked the runtime package and found the
following addresses for EMC/GCC.

From the Documentation of the runtime package:
!12 Obtaining the complete emx package
!=====================================
!
!emx is available for anonymous ftp on
!
!    ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.18.15]: /pub/systems/os2/emx-0.9a
!    ftp-os2.cdrom.com:   [192.153.46.2]: /os2/32bit/unix/emx09a
!    src.doc.ic.ac.uk      [146.169.2.1]:
/pub/packages/os2/32bit/unix/emx09a
!    ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.198]:
!                                         /pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/emx+gcc
Don't get scared of os/2, the compiler runs for dos and os/2 as do many
of the application created with it, e.g. the emTeX package, BTW it's the
same author! For Windows you might also like to have a look at the
rsx/rsxwin package, to be found in gccdpmi5.zip at a lot of ftp-sites.
It should be near the EMX/GCC package and at any CTAN in the msdos/os2
dirs.

Please let me know of your experiences.
Regards

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Axel Thimm <axl AT zedat DOT fu-berlin DOT de>
Freie Universitaet Berlin
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