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From:	iNFiK <randolp1 AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: FAQs
Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:37:23 -0700
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Alistair Hamilton wrote:
> 
> Many of the answers to these queries refer the question setter to the FAQ file.
> What I am asking for is a real dumb cluck's guide to getting this.
> 
> I have retrieved faq201s.zip. (Not straightworward, since the "usual sources"
> i.e Simtel, to which we are so often pointed in this group are still of 200!".)
> I have unzipped it. What I __DON'T__ get is a nice text file that I can read
> through to stop me asking stupid questions. I have got a make file, but this
> won;t work, because I don't have 'sed'. Since I have no use for this, and I
> don't know whence to get it, I am stuck.
> 
> PLEASE, let us have some instructions to help us dummies to help you non-dummies
> have a quiet life. Better, give us a simple place to point our ftp clients such
> that we can get a FAQ file that can be sent direct to our printers, eve if such
> a file is of such vast size that our printers are left spavined, smoking beasts
> by the experience.

in the djgpp distribution, isf the file ends with a S that means its the 
source code of somthing.  so you got the source of the FAQ, if a filename 
ends with a B, that means that its allread compiled.  so download the 
faq201b.zip and not the s one.

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