From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   I think I now have my future mapped out.   
      
   If Earth says to me "we hate you Paul - fuck off to   
   Mars - but you are free to take any public domain   
   software with you, and your laptop and solar energy",   
   where do I stand?   
      
   Similar if it is a nuclear fallout shelter instead of Mars.   
      
   I have built PDOS/386 using copyrighted tools like gcc,   
   and SubC isn't quite C90. But I selected C90 as my   
   language, so that's what my source base is.   
      
   However, I can compile SubC itself, and SubC is good   
   enough to rebuild itself. So basically I will be stuck   
   until I master SubC and make it C90-compliant, or at   
   least the subset of the language I happen to use. Or I   
   change my code to be SubC-compliant. Whatever I am   
   willing to change SubC to be.   
      
   I don't need to do any of that right now. Plenty of time   
   on Mars. But I'm screwed right now because I don't have   
   an assembler/archiver/linker. But I recently found out   
   that simple versions of that to handle SubC output are   
   only a couple of thousand lines of code.   
      
   Therefore I should immediately switch my attention to   
   those products, before I am deported. Otherwise I would   
   be forced to use a hex editor (I have "zap") to write   
   machine code.   
      
   Note that some BBS message reading software I have   
   has the ability to export/import text files, which provides   
   me with a crude text editor until I see if "mg" can be   
   weaned off being Unix-dependent, or I write my own   
   micro-emacs from scratch.   
      
   So the race is on for an 80386 a.out assembler,   
   archiver and linker.   
      
   When I'm on Mars another thing I will have to do is   
   write an 8086 huge memory model with 32-bit ints   
   version of SubC for my boot loader. SubC currently   
   requires short/int/long/pointer to all be the same   
   size effectively, I think.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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