Request: make coff2omf free

[John Reimer]

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.

-JJR