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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:11:57 -0500
From:      Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>
To:        Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com>, R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Samuel Savas Pozidis <ssp04@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "/usr/bin/CC"
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.20000314201154.00dc7d30@pseudonet.org>

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At 07:51 PM 3/14/00 -0500, Jim Conner wrote:
>At 04:27 PM 3/14/00 -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote:
>> > > I have recently discovered that there is a binary in /usr/bin/ on
>> > > FreeBSD called CC..  I am wondering if it is based on the SunC
>> > > compiler "CC", there seems to be no manual page for it.
>> >
>> > We use gcc, see "man gcc" and "info gcc".
>>
>>Did the original BSD not come with its own c compiler?  I thought that
>>"cc" was a standard part of all Unices.
>
>Nope.  Most, if not all Unices, charge the customer for a C compiler that 
>is usually proprietary to their flavor or Unix.

Let me make this a little more clear.  Most, if not all *proprietary* 
Unices, make you pay....Freeware Unices come with GNU cc. :)

Sorry for the confusion



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>Today's errors, in contrast:
>Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935"
>UNIX  - "segmentation fault - core dumped"
>Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up"
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today's errors, in contrast:
Windows - "Invalid page fault in module kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935"
UNIX  - "segmentation fault - core dumped"
Humanous Beingsus - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up"
-------------------------------
Jim Conner
NOTJames
jconner@enterit.com



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