Request: make coff2omf free

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Too bad.  I downloaded it for the first time only a month or so ago.

> 
> The download is still available, but the project seems to have been 
> abandoned.  

Yeh, last update is 2003.  But heck that's ok by me, grep and ls haven't 
changed all that much in the intervening 4 years.



> 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.

I was hoping GetGnuWin32 was going to be a thing that let me click a box 
to select "Executables only", but it turns out it's just a batch script 
that wgets everything indiscriminately.

--bb