Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/04/09/05:28:44
Some of this is irrelevant to you (it's a forward of a message I wrote
earlier to someone who couldn't find the right files on the mirror),
but it should cover everything you wanted to know and then some....
I just checked ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp, and found
-rw-r--r-- 1 w8sdz oak 565066 Dec 7 12:08 bnu22bn.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 w8sdz oak 78022 Dec 7 12:08 bnu22dc.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 w8sdz oak 1179439 Dec 7 12:10 bnu22sr1.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 w8sdz oak 491988 Dec 7 12:10 bnu22sr2.zip
The first file is the current binary for bin-util. The next is docs,
the last two are sources. (These naming conventions are consistent
for all packages.)
I think you also should get all dj111m?.zip, since the maintenance
scheme is to overwrite all change files. You have to do this in
order, since not all maintenance releases change the same files, but
GO32 (for one) is changed in every one.
You had me worried for a minute: although OAK is technically a
mirror of SIMTEL, it is effectively SIMTEL since SIMTEL itself is no
longer accessible by internet (or anything else) for security reasons,
and OAK is the primary mirror.
There are several other djgpp mirrors in North America. To whit:
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/systems/ibmpc/msdos/djgpp [128.252.135.4]
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com
ftp://omnigate.clarkson.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp
ftp://qdeck.com/pub/packages/djgpp
ftp://ftp.math.niu.com/pub/.../djgpp.stuff (sorry about the ellipsis)
WUARCHIVE and GATEKEEPER are full SIMTEL mirrors. They should be
considered almost as reliable as OAK. I believe GATEKEEPER is West
Coast (I presume bc.ca is British Columbia). OMNIGATE used to be the
primary distribution site for DJGPP, but its network access is
extremely congested. DJ was asked if OMNIGATE was still primary, but
I forget what he said. QDECK and MATH.NIU are not very up-to-date.
There may be a mirror at McGill. Materials under development (GDB,
far pointers, v2.0 gamma ;-) are often uploaded to
ftp://ftp.cygnus.com
In Europe, GARBO (garbo.uwasa.fi, I think) probably has a DJGPP
mirror. Asian mirrors all are pretty outdated in my experience.
GARBO is the primary site for GNU Make 3.70 (it's in an odd place,
/pub/msdos/programming/gmake370.zip, or something like that, neither
gnuish nor djgpp).
All of the above support the standard anonymous ftp login protocol;
many of them record your activity. Some will refuse your login if it
doesn't correctly correspond to the FTP connection.
If this still doesn't solve your problem, (a) repost to the list or
(b) check the archives at ftp://sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp*.
You should be able to find discussion of similar problems in the most
recent archive (but not djgpp-announce, that only has announcements of
new versions, ports of major programs, etc). If you have to go back
farther than that, the old archive is 8MB+ :-( Go out for dinner
while downloading....
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