From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer. Subject: Re: Borland C++ compiler free! Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <88i2bs0q612fs0rbhm61cqbloadfcp77b0@4ax.com> References: <38B0C5F0 DOT B1C9B111 AT home DOT com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 X-Trace: /KDWjcAIRYIJolS5cnxrkFqmfun0eBUZG0DoTAZ1K9PsRVTz2uswGmOYz0/HqgnGlpv6kz8FlRR+!cx8xmzJF+LO6Hkhl8l0KMC6BHAE9sFI2E0pBxNUZ+t4l41pgExipqkM+svkvDmAv6zjS/mnUs1PR!n1I3Y+A= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:26:59 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:26:59 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 04:58:26 GMT, Robin Johnson wrote: >Check this out! and support open source! Open source? Where's the source distribution? >http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/ Requires Windows. Somewhat offtopic in DOS programming froups. Why did Microsoft call its new OS Windows? The existence of winconsole apps confuses a lot of newbies (especially in c.o.m.programmer). "Why does it need Windows? It runs in the DOS box." Especially confusing is when a winconsole app runs, it runs with the "MS-DOS" logo in the upper left corner. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/