Request: make coff2omf free

[Sean Kelly]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:27:26 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>>> There are number of free sources for unix-like tools for windows. 
>>> There's Cygwin, of course.  Then there's also 
>>> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ .
>>
>> Yes, I know.  In fact, you don't even need to get cygwin to get grep.  
>> You
>> can use MSYS instead, which I prefer.
>>
>> But for those that don't want to download all the extras or go anywhere
>> near the unix compatibility layers, having access to a tool that
>> just works on the current OS without dependencies is a feature. :)  
> 
> The link he posted doesn't use Cygwin. That project compiled native 
> ..exes for several traditional Unix utilities, depending only on 
> msvcrt.dll (distributed with windows).
> Apparently the .zip containing them is a dead link now, though. It used 
> to be a quite compact download with lots of stand-alone utils though. I 
> just re-zipped my install on another computer and it was only 137k.

The download is still available, but the project seems to have been 
abandoned.  I switched to GnuWin32 recently and think it's much better, 
if a tad unwieldy.  An accompanying download app called GetGnuWin32 is 
the best way to deal with installing those tools.


Sean