From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Prehistorical GPC in DJGPP
Date:	Mon, 06 Apr 1998 07:32:15 -0400
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Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> 
> While browsing through the DJGPP `zip' archives I encountered
> a prehistorical version (gpc-1.1.2, corresponding to gcc-2.6.3)
> of the GNU Pascal Compiler (GPC).  In `readme.1st' it is
> mentioned as "gpt112b - GNU Pascal with Turbo Pascal Extensions"
> which is somehow misleading since the official version gpc-2.0
> supports more Turbo Pascal extensions than gpt-1.1.2.

<snip>

> OTOH, I could also provide an alpha version of GPC (with yet even
> more Turbo Pascal - and other - extensions;-) in the near future.
> What is the naming convention for such a thing and where can I
> upload it?

here is a snippet from
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/00_index.txt

Directory v2gnu/
 Filename  Type   Length   Date  Description
--------------- --------- ------ -----------
gpc112b.txt  A        291 960426 
gpc112b.zip  B    685,430 960506 GNU Pascal 1.1.2 binaries for DJGPP V2
gpc112d.zip  B  2,404,139 970503 GNU Pascal 1.1.2 docs: texi/html/dvi/ps
gpc112s.zip  B  8,621,302 960506 GNU Pascal 1.1.2 sources
gpc20b.zip   B  1,125,151 961213 GNU Pascal 2.0 binaries for DJGPP V2
gpc20d.zip   B  1,926,547 970503 GNU Pascal 2.0 docs: texi/html/dvi/ps
gpc20s.zip   B  1,805,127 961213 GNU Pascal 2.0 sources

is there something i am missing here?
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