From: wivey AT ix DOT netcom DOT com (William H. Ivey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: The numer 1 compiler, DJGPP or MSVC  Here's a good rating comparision
Date: 7 Sep 1997 20:58:23 GMT
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In <5uur1s$sdc$2 AT news DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk> mert0236 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (Thomas Womack)
writes: 
>
>Weiqi Gao (weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com) wrote:
>: Also, MSVC, even the latest version (5.0) has around 100 tools ("ls
>:-l C:\MSDEV\BIN | wc"), while DJGPP has close 300 tools.
>
>On the other hand, these are completely different tools, and DJGPP's
>large number of tools comes very much from the Unix 'small,
>single-function tool' philosophy; MSDEV, I suspect, covers most of the
>300 .exes of DJGPP.

I've found that to be more or less true, especially when supplemented
by Win '95's utilities. (I use the IDE's "Find in Files" and Win '95's
Find utilities as substitutes for grep, for example.) The only tool
I've missed, is a dump-type command and I had an old Dos dump that
worked quite nicely. (I needed to create a text version of a binary
file to edit into some C source - one of MSVC++'s IDE's quirks is the
lack, as far as I can find, of a convenient way of cutting the hex dump
from a binary file window.)-Wm