RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Terry Lambert]

Brad Knowles wrote:
>         Compress is okay, but people have come to rely on gzip and bzip2.
> IMO, perhaps the best thing is to move them to ports.  Unless, that
> is, they're used anywhere in the build process.

I believeOpenBSD have extended compress to include gzip format.


> >  TenDRA.  Watcom.  Intel.  Lots of choices here.
> 
>         How many of these work on non-Intel hardware, such as Alpha or SPARC?

TenDRA.  CompaqCC.  I coud probably find another no-cost one for
the SPARC, if necessary.

Frankly, I still think my original closing statement holds:
the compiler is merely tactical software, not strategic.

-- Terry