From:	karpfenteich AT gmx DOT de (Peter Karp)
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: FAQ v2.30 slightly modified
Date:	Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:45:57 GMT
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Hi Eli,

just a side note:

>On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote:
>
>> How about releasing a small diff file that can be downloaded and applied
>> with 'patch'?
>
>A diff file to what? [...]

>faq230b.zip is only 670KB, is it really that hard to fetch it?

No it's surely not, but you have to know that Eduardo is a big fan of
the programmable HP48 calculator (which I'm a fan of too :-) and we're
used to have extremly smalll programs and files. For example a tiny
tetris has 1K while a full featured tetris is about 6.5K, a compressed
online help for UserRPL (the programming language of the calc) is 50K
and a huge math application is 100K. Maybe we're just a little bit out
of focus for todays sizes  ;-)

BTW, Eduardo has used DJGPP to write a very nice console "emulation"
of the HP48 which offers most of the numeric features of the calc.

Greetings from Cologne
Peter

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