Re: "Portable" C compilers?

CBFalconer wrote:
Richard Bos wrote:
Albert <albert.xtheunknown0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Exactly - Students at my school are not given 'administrator
accounts' on WinXP, and I am a student at this school. Now
Borland C++ is installed. I don't like it. When I need to write
one huge source file with a huge main function with little
function breakdown,
You do not need to do that.

What you _do_ need to do is talk to your school's sysadmin, who
will drum it into your untenured head exactly why half-educated,
immature twerps should not be trusted with administrator accounts
or even command line access, ever (and that's just the teachers I
was referring to - pupils are a good deal worse yet); and then
talk to your programming teacher, who will try to explain to you
why you need to learn to organise your programming before you
have the gall to complain about the tools you've been given.

You are obviously too young and inexperienced to remember CP/M and
even MSDOS, which were purely command line driven systems. These
can be made absolutely secure, by simply restricting the commands
available. Breaking in then requires hard (not remote) access to
the system.

MSDOS is not secure and does not allow for remote access. If whatever remote access stuff you've used for MS DOS does provide any security, then that is nothing to do with MS DOS.

In any case, that does not answer Richard's point. I've set up DOS machines where it boots straight in to an application. I'm sure if I wanted I could remote the command prompt completely. Not plays enough with CP/M to comment about that though.
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