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From: piet AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: emx1930*.zip
Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:58:39 +0100
Organization: Universiteit Utrecht, Dept. of Computer Science
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In-reply-to: Manfred Deutsch's message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:20:42 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

>>>>> Manfred Deutsch <md AT fiz-karlsruhe DOT de> (MD) writes:

Eli> There is no other site.  The version of 19.30 on DJ's server includes 
Eli> many bugfixes to the original GNU 19.30 release, so even if you get the 
Eli> GNU distribution and recompile, you won't have some of the DOS-specific 
Eli> fixes that the above binary has installed.
>> 
>> There is a version on (some) simtel mirrors -- incomplete at Imperial
>> College, for instance -- in the msdos/editors directory.  This is its
>> announcement file.  Is this the same thing (it is somewhat patched) or
>> is it inferior?  The definitive answer probably ought to replace the
>> one currently in the Emacs FAQ.  Thanks for the efforts anyhow.
>> 
MD> [some lines deleted]
>> 
MD> I checked the file sizes of the files em1930??.zip on delorie.com and
MD> on ftp.uni-koeln.de, directory:  /pc/msdos/gnuprogs. These are 
MD> exactly the same. So I would guess the contained files should be the same, 
MD> too.

On the other hand, the simtel files have different file sizes. 
Does this mean that they only have been differently packed, or is it a
different compilation?
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet

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