Reply-To:	Stephen Benson <stephenb AT scribendum DOT win-uk DOT net>
To:	turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Sun, 15 Jan 1995 10:28:16
Subject:	Re: V2.0 suggestion
From:	Stephen Benson <stephenb AT scribendum DOT win-uk DOT net>

>
>However, this is *not* the mission of DJGPP qua DJGPP---it's for
>somebody else to do.  If you have a list of such "small but useful"
>utilities, I'd be glad to see if they can be fit into Tony's
>packaging.  
>

Just to draw your attention to a couple of recent posts in the FSF part of the
world (on gnu.announce, I think): 

>This is Emacs 18, with elisp and info files, all on a single floppy. 
>
>Begin3
>Title:          temacs
>Version:        18.xx
>Entered-date:   6 Jan 1995
>Description:    Tiny Emacs 18 on a single floppy.  Found most of this together,
>                but I removed all *.elc files, infrequently used *.el files,
>                added some useful info pages, and cleaned up the etc directory
>                so that it only contains binaries and the DOC file.
>Keywords:       Emacs, text, editing, info
>Author:         rms AT gnu DOT ai DOT mit DOT edu (Richard Stallman)
>Maintained-by:  flake AT scr DOT siemens DOT com (Gary Flake)
>Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming
>                temacs.tgz
>Alternate-site: 
>Original-site:  
>Platform:       
>Copying-policy: GNU GPL

>For those with you with tight disk space, consider using this
>distribution of LaTeX, which fits on a single floppy.
>
>Begin3
>Title:          ttex
>Version:        ?
>Entered-date:   6 January 1995
>Description:    Tiny TeX distribution.  This is everything you need to run
>                LaTeX.  It all fits on a single floppy. I found this at
>                sunsite a while ago and cleaned up redundant files, added
>                appropriate links, and added bibtex. Comes with fonts, xdvi,
>                dvips, detex, macros, and man pages.
>Keywords:       TeX, LaTeX, tex, latex, dvi, bibtex.
>Author:         (Donald Knuth and friends)
>Maintained-by:  flake AT scr DOT siemens DOT com (Gary Flake)
>Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/Incoming
>                ttex.tgz
>

There was at least one other, but I've forgotten what it was. Seems to be a
trend, and a good one....


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