dn>If you have a 386 or better with 4+ megs of RAM, look around for a
dn>DOS port of gcc as Russel Coker said - it is a very reasonable 

dn>any other single C/C++ compiler. On the C side, it is a 
dn>commercial grade (as in high quality) compiler, better than 
dn>many compilers selling for hundreds of dollars. On C++, it 

    Just an addendum to that point.  For my major project for my CS
degree I had to (in a group of 11 students) write a client server
application to query a database with an X-windows user interface.  One
of the first things that we did was to compile GCC on the target
platform (HP Precision Architecture RISC based UNIX work-stations) as
the compiler that shipped with the systems wouldn't work with the GUI
design tools.
    GCC compiled code produced by 2 different GUI design tools, it
linked with object code produced by an Ada compiler (both Ada calling
C and C calling Ada).

   We couldn't get the HP C compiler to do any of this (I'm sure it
would have been possible, but we just didn't have enough time - it was
easier to spend a couple of weeks getting GCC installed).  Also the HP
C compiler produced warnings when you used ANSI C (it only liked K&R
C).

   GCC ships with NextStep as the default (only?) C compiler for that
OS.


    cya

   PS  I expect that you already know this, but I thought that the
other readers of this echo might be interested.
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