Have a look at http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html for a complete
distribution of the MinGW port of GCC compiler along with IDE.
It's a lot easier to get started with and doesn't require Cygwin.

Richard.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Marchesani
> Sent: 03 September 2002 01:48
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [PIC]: GCC - C Compiler UNIX in DOS
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am interested in getting this GCC, ANSI C Compiler from
> WWW.GNU.ORG.  It is in a UNIX Format, that I understand will
> work in the DOS Enviro.  My problem is getting the GZIP to
> decompress the .TAR.GZ files for MSDOS.
>
> Can any one give me some idea on how to do this.
>
> The Docs gave this comment (below), which I used etc., but it
> created a file without any [.ext] and terminated with an
> error "BAD COMMAND OR FILENAME" Which I think was an attempt
> to start a program...
>
> ===================================================
> To extract sources that are in files ending in `.tar.gz' you
> can use the command
>
>       gzip -d < foo.tar.gz | tar xf -
>
> where `foo.tar.gz' is the name of the file.
> ===================================================
>
>
> Dan Marchesani
>
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