hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (06/18/88)
Full sources and documentation for ARC 5.21, with squashing & squeezing,
should be appearing soon in comp.sources.unix. I suspect you MSDOS folk
won't be as interested, since PKARC works so much better. However, if you
like tinkering, and you've got a decent C compiler (like MSC or Turbo),
you might want to look it over. (I seriously doubt that you'd want to try
to use the Computer Innovations C86 compiler. There's a lot of grungy code
in there trying to overcome the limitations of their library. Munging it
up for MSC or TurboC would make things a lot cleaner...)
These same sources will also create the Atari ST version, assuming you've
got version 3 of the Mark Williams C compiler. (Don't worry if not; there's
no difference between this version and what was just posted to the ST
binaries group...)
(And just for you worriers - after a month or so of persistent phone-calling,
John Gilmore managed to talk to Thom Henderson and confirm the "free" status
of the sources. Thanks again, John! So... Distribute at will - just don't
charge for it.)
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