Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 16:15:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edwin Phillips <flaregun AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu>
Subject: Re: 1.12 status
To: DJGPP mailing list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>

On Wed, 27 Jul 1994, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> 1.12 is NOT released yet.  Soon.
> 
> I ran a test distribution last night.  Here are the statistics:
> 
> total size of zips:	32 Mb
> number of floppies:	28 (1.2M)
> uncompressed size:	200 Mb

  It's soon time for the DJGPP CDROM!!!  ;-) (not a bad idea)

> 
> I found some typos in the README.1ST file that need to be fixed, and a
> few last minor bugfixes, and then it should be ready.
> 
> I got gdb to work in DPMI mode.  It needs the special sbrk() from
> go32/ed/ed.c, but that sbrk needs to memset(ptr,0,len) to ensure that
> the allocated memory is zero'd out.  This function goes in go32targ.c
> in gdb.
> 
> I also added sed-1.18 to djgpp.  Sed-2.05 is much slower and uses much
> more memory, so I used sed-1.18.
> 

  What?  No 'egrep'?  No 'less'?  Geeze... (hehehe 8-)

> DJ
> 
> 

  Thanks for a GREAT compiler and env which gets better all the time!
  (pat on back)

  Ed

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