From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization:	Materials Science Centre
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 31 May 1996 09:17:39 GMT
Subject:	Re: djgpp: what on earth are all those .zip files for!?
Message-ID:	<1955384462B@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  boylesgj AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au (Gregary J Boyles) wrote (Subject: Setting
up djgpp.):-
> I have just downloaded djgpp, or part of it, from ftp.simtel.net and I am
> confused as to the huge number of zip files. ...

In the server in the directory with the zip files there should be a text file
00_index.txt that says briefly what the zip files contain and how big they
are. This may not be quite true with version 2, but with version 1 on 5 Oct
1995:-

aeasy102.zip  Async library for djgpp		not needed
aecur102.zip  Curses library for djgpp		a graphics package? not needed
aetsk102.zip  Task Switching library for djgpp	not needed
aewin102.zip  Text Windows library for djgpp    not needed
                      This is NOT a Windows-simulator or a Windows interface!!
bnu*.zip      binutils-2.4			Needed
bsn*.zip      bison				A parser. Not needed.
cb*.zip       GRX graphics library	      Only needed if you want graphics

  `gas' (= Gnu Assembler) is part of djgpp and is needed.
  `maint' is `maintenance' and is an updating package.

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