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It is mostly available via ftp. I don't know all the details though. I remotely recall it being available on BIX too (but that may have only been the TI cpp and not the TI libs).

Thomas, Well, I originally got a copy from when it was distributed over USENET. However, after taking it home on a pile of floppies (!) I never managed to extract it (it was tar/compressed on my sparcstation – the uncompress was OK, but the untar crashed the Amiga). Having obtained Comeau C++, I figured it would be a good way to try out the compiler, so ftp'd it from TI direct. I got 3.7 megs through the 4 meg transfer and the line dropped. :-(. There was enough to find out that this wouldn't untar either, though. It turned out that my tar was broken, so I hacked one up enough to do the job, and everything is OK now. As I mentioned, the UNIX tar/compressed archive is around 4 megs, and extracts to somewhere around 7 or 8 megs. The implementation is a bit strange, as they have written a preprocessor to implement some extended macro capabilities, templates (which did not exist at the time), plus exceptions. There is also a cut down (lite) version of some of the classes, with the extensions taken out, as well as some development tools (like RCS, mkdepend, etc). Oh, and a big pile of docs as well, mostly in Postscript format, although I think they also have something nroff-ish. I am just using the full classes, with the exception code stripped out, but the templates left in. I haven't bothered with the preprocessor. So to finally answer your question, the only place I know that has it is TI themselves. You can ftp from csc.ti.com. If you do not have ftp access, maybe you could email someone there (postmaster) and try to get it sent to you by ftpmail? Finally, if all else fails, and you are keen to get hold of it, you *could* send me a pile of floppies, as I still have my original copy of the archive all nicely broken up into little pieces suitable for floppy transfer. Since I am in UK, and I assume you are in US, hopefully someone more local will know something. Email me if you want to pursue this. Steve the G. [BEDFORDSHIRE, UK]