Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:23:58 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Gerhard Gruber <sparhawk AT eunet DOT at>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: UNIX commands
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:

> >Just install all of the above, and you'll be fine.  IMHO it doesn't
> 
> I think that I should have them all by now.

Then how come you still have problems with `cat' and such likes?

> When a lot of programs is usually used together then I think it is perfectly
> valid to put them together in a single package. I don't know about the
> majority here, but I'm usually working on UNIX systems and therefore I use
> most of the commands quite a lot. And I think that also the scripts and
> makefiles make heavy usage at least of certain programs grouped together.

This is user-dependent.  Not everybody uses these programs to run
shell scripts and Makefiles.  Others might need e.g. Fileutils alone,
and I would not want to force them to download a multi-megabyte file.

It is also quite a nuisance to lump together programs which are
released separately by the GNU project, since every binary
distribution needs to be accompained by the sources.

I really don't see any problem in asking people to download several
files instead of one.  After all, DJGPP is already a lot of separate
files, not a single large one.

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