Request: make coff2omf free

[Bill Baxter]

John Reimer wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:38:34 +0100, Frits van Bommel wrote:
> 
>> John Reimer wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:08:56 +0100, Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>>> Thinking about it, it might actually seem like a better deal if you said
>>>>> it was $15 for coff2omf and obj2asm, and the rest of the stuff is thrown
>>>>> in for free.  As it is the web page seems to imply that coff2omf is
>>>>> about equal to chmod in terms of programming effort and is contributing
>>>>> equally to the cost.
>>>> or let's say you support walter's multi-year effort for D by buying the
>>>> package, no matter it's content. i'd buy a megabyte of white noise for
>>>> that matter ;)
>>>> but i found that EUP's grep tool is even more useful than white noise...
>>> Right.  Oh and I forgot about the grep tool.  It is good! :)
>> Why are you so excited about DM's grep?
>> Is it much better than the GNU version?[1]
>> Because that one is available for free, even on Windows.
>>  From http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/grep.html, the only features 
>> mentioned that the GNU version doesn't (or at least that I don't know 
>> how to turn on) are -v (verbose, woohoo ;) ), and wide character 
>> searching. That last one may be useful for some people, but AFAIK I 
>> don't even have any text files with wide characters on my computer.
>>
>> Unless, of course, you're being sarcastic.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: I can understand it being more useful than white noise ;).
> 
> 
> Um?  Excited?  I was just being positive, not excited. :)  There aren't a
> whole lot of tools in the small package in which I'm interested.  But I'm
> willing to agree when I see one that was useful?  Am I not allowed to show
> such interest? :)
> 
> Sure grep is available for free elsewhere.  Have a look at my other post. 
> But most other packages have fairly hefty dependencies before you get to
> have your favourite free tool. :)  I'm willing to put up with those
> dependencies, but not everyone is likely willing to go full-out linux layer
> just to get some grep functionality.
> 
> Is the GNU version standalone on windows?  Then you have a valid argument.

I don't know about the one Frits mentioned, but the one at the link I 
posted is.

"""
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this 
context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft 
C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by 
Cygwin  tools.
"""
       -- http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/


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