From:	Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: RSXNTDJ
Date:	14 May 1997 11:58:42 +0200
Organization:	Universiteit Utrecht, Dept. of Computer Science
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>>>>> pderbysh AT chat DOT carleton DOT ca (Paul Derbyshire) (PD) writes:

PD> A. Sinan Unur (asu1 AT cornell DOT edu) wrote:
>> Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>> > 
>> > I managed to track down RSXNTDJ using a websearch. Problem is I could 
>> > not find its home page, only an FTP directory with a bunch of RSX 
>> > files. Worse, the files were huge, only one was named "RSXNTDJ", and 
>> > what passed for readme files in there made things *very* confusing. I 
>> > couldn't figure out anything useful, like what files I would need, how 
>> > to install, etc.

>> get

>> ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/rsxdj131.zip


PD> Thanks...I got it, and found the documentation. There is one problem
PD> though. The help file appears to say I need something called the platform
PD> SDK, obviously a software development kit. This is said to include needed
PD> include files, libraries, and a resource and help compiler. Two URLs are
PD> given, but both are bogus! Evidently, the URLs are out-dated. I did an
PD> archie-search for the files, PlatformInc.exe and two others. Archie found
PD> plenty of them mirrored all over the net, but every last link Archie
PD> turned up was bogus. Even some of the ftp sitenames were phony! I found a
PD> real FTP site, managed to trach down the platformsdk subdirectory, but the
PD> three needed files were not there. There were, instead, some other files,
PD> quite large, and no adequate documentation to indicate if perhaps
PD> Microsoft has replaced the earlier SDK files with these, and if so which
PD> is needed...

Here are a couple of URLs:

<a href = "http://139.134.5.5/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://194.159.240.196/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://194.25.15.226/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://194.51.76.193/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://198.187.50.19/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://198.187.50.3/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://198.187.50.35/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://198.187.50.51/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://200.245.232.249/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://202.27.157.254/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://203.252.5.21/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://207.227.0.211/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://207.227.0.212/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://207.68.137.45/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://207.68.137.46/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://210.130.160.194/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus1.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus2.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus3.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus4.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus5.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://mssjus6.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus1.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus2.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus3.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus4.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus5.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>
<a href = "http://msvaus6.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/platformsdk.exe">platformsdk.exe</a>

mssjus1.www.conxion.com/msdownload/platformsdk/index.txt:

File			Contents
=========		=========
Wsp2sdk.exe		Windows NT Service Pack 2 Win32 SDK (x86)

wsp2sdk-alpha.exe	Windows NT Service Pack 2 Win32 SDK (alpha)				

wsp2sdk-ppc.exe		Windows NT Service Pack 2 Win32 SDK (ppc)
			
platformsdk.exe		Microsoft Platform SDK - PDC Edition

platforminc.exe		Microsoft Platform SDK  - PDC Edition (INCLUDE) 

platformbin.exe		Microsoft Platform SDK - PDC Edition (BIN)

platformlib.exe		Microsoft Platform SDK - PDC Edition (LIB)

/samples		Microsoft Platform SDK - PDC Edition (Samples)

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