Request: make coff2omf free

[John Reimer]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:09:51 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> 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/
> 
> 
> --bb


Yeah, sorry.  I seem to have missed that.  I just saw cygwin and
a link in your last post and ended up missing this.

My apologies.

-JJR