Request: make coff2omf free

[John Reimer]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:27:26 +0900, Bill Baxter 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! :)
> 
> 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/ .
> 
> --bb


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. :)  

-JJR