Where is GNU C for openVMS/Alpha ? It should be availabe at the time you read this, but it didn't make it to the freeware CD. GNU C for openVMS/Alpha was ported by Klaus Kämpf (kkaempf@progis.de) of proGIS Software, Aachen, Germany. However, the patches to the GNU C source distribution had to pass several conformance and portability tests, which weren't finished in time. Without these tests, proGIS Software decided not to publish the source. Since the GNU public license requires to make source available to every binary distribution of any program under this license, providing gnu c binaries on CD would be a violation of the license. If you're interested in GNU C for openVMS/Alpha, please visit our web pages at http://www.progis.de GNU C++ and the GNU C++ libraries will be available in early 1997. A port of GNAT, the GNU Ada Translator, is currently developed by Ada Core Technologies. This port is based on the work done by Klaus Kämpf for the GNU C compiler. The work on GNAT is funded by DEC, no data of availability is announced yet. Other GNU utilities ported by proGIS to openVMS/Alpha include - GNU binutils, including gas the GNU Assembler bfd GNU BFD library to manipulate object files nm to extract symbol names from an object file size to get the size of data and code segments in an object file objdump a disassembler for openVMS/Alpha object files - GNU Make a complete implementation of the un*x make command - Touch a clone of the un*x touch command