Date:	Thu, 5 May 94 16:38:00 JST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Cc:	pete AT di DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Distribution on floppies

   Date: Mon, 2 May 94 20:58:13 EDT
   From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
   Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

   > My email link is very slow, is there a way that I can get the
   > djgpp distribution by floppy disk, I can of course pay for that.

   [Free Software Foundation, per DJ's reply] will send you the whole
   thing for $100 [DJ didn't give a price].  I'd guess it's about 20
   floppies, so that isn't an unreasonable price, but it includes
   things like compiler sources which the typical user doesn't need.
   If you have a CD-ROM drive, you could get a SimTel disk from Costal
   Communications or Walnut Creek which would have all the djgpp files
   as of the time the disk was mastered.

The Walnut Creek Simtel CD-ROM seems to be consistently about 3-5
months behind, after recording, production, and distribution lags.  I
haven't bought it in quite a while, but the last time I did it arrived
with DJGPP 1.09 on it the day that 1.11 hit Omnigate.  (I remember it
because of the coincidence.)  I get their flyers every once in a
while, and that lag seems to be consistent.  They have also announce
their CD-ROMs well before they're ready to begin shipping.  I've been
quite happy to have their Simtel, GNU/X11R5, and games disks, and the
price is very good for what you get.  But it's not very timely.  I
would guess that the FSF's floppy suite lags by a couple of weeks at
most.

- Raw text -