Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/05/05/05:18:53
Date: Mon, 2 May 94 20:58:13 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
> My email link is very slow, is there a way that I can get the
> djgpp distribution by floppy disk, I can of course pay for that.
[Free Software Foundation, per DJ's reply] will send you the whole
thing for $100 [DJ didn't give a price]. I'd guess it's about 20
floppies, so that isn't an unreasonable price, but it includes
things like compiler sources which the typical user doesn't need.
If you have a CD-ROM drive, you could get a SimTel disk from Costal
Communications or Walnut Creek which would have all the djgpp files
as of the time the disk was mastered.
The Walnut Creek Simtel CD-ROM seems to be consistently about 3-5
months behind, after recording, production, and distribution lags. I
haven't bought it in quite a while, but the last time I did it arrived
with DJGPP 1.09 on it the day that 1.11 hit Omnigate. (I remember it
because of the coincidence.) I get their flyers every once in a
while, and that lag seems to be consistent. They have also announce
their CD-ROMs well before they're ready to begin shipping. I've been
quite happy to have their Simtel, GNU/X11R5, and games disks, and the
price is very good for what you get. But it's not very timely. I
would guess that the FSF's floppy suite lags by a couple of weeks at
most.
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