From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 28 23:34:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24256 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24250 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul4.u.washington.edu (root@saul4.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.2]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA32478; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:22 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul4.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id XAA27883; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:34:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Frank Pawlak cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C Programing tools In-Reply-To: <19980928214116.A10370@execpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Frank Pawlak wrote: >Also what tools (ports) will I have to have installed on my FreeBSD >system to run and compile some of my work? The prof wants me to work in >Winblows, and I explained about the bad case of hives that I get every >time I boot that S--- up. I did my C class on Mac. Everytime I would ask a teaching assistant for help they would fetch my code over to a time share box and compile under unix. "Why did you do that?" I asked. "Unix won't crash if your program is broke," they replied. (This, by the way, was part of my continuing ascent to gurudom.) You will spend less time rebooting your computer if you build under FreeBSD. This is my limited experience. YMMV. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message