From: cswhite AT comp DOT uark DOT edu (Christopher White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: need advice on djgpp vs. Turbo C
Date: 17 Oct 1996 14:04:36 GMT
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mbryant AT csugrad DOT cs DOT vt DOT edu (Marc H. Bryant) writes:

>Hi, 
>	I have been shopping around for a C compiler 
>(for my brother), and have recently stumbled accross
>djgpp.  I havn't tried it out, but was wondering if
>I could get your advice on how it compares with
>Borland's Turbo C/C++ (for dos... v3.0 i think).
>My brother has an old 386sx, with very limited hd space,
>5meg ram, no cd-rom.  For this reason, I have been
>looking for a cheap, prefferebly dos-based, small,
>compiler.  djgpp seems to fit these requirements, but
>noticed that the faq said it had a steep learning 
>curve.  Since my brother is relatively new at C,
>I was wondering if it would be worth buying an
>older version of TC instead of going with djgpp.

>I'd appreciate any and all advice... TIA.
>marc

One thing to consider is that Borland has practically dropped all support
for it's DOS-based compilers.  Just visit their homepage - you'll see
nothing about Turbo C++ 3.0.  And I highly doubt there will be another
version (DOS-based) released.

That's one reason to go with DJGPP.