Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 16:43:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: help
To: mattfi AT cogs DOT susx DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>1) Due to lack of disk space, can i wipe the src files and directories from
>djgpp ? Can i also wipe the initial .zip files ? Also, what do the zoneinfo
>files do and can i wipe any of them ?

Yes; yes; they allow more or less arbitrary time zone info (hence their name),
and you can delete the ones that don't apply to your region.

>2) What does compress.exe do ? If i download gzip will this compress the .exe
>files produced when i compile ?

Compress.exe lets you make *nix .Z files, and gzip lets you uncompress .Z's and
do lots of stuff with .gz's (which are smaller and can be created legally on
ALL systems.

>3) What do the makefile files do ?

They let you run a convenient program called `make' so you don't have to
manually build projects (especially large ones).  Please note that GNU's make
(for some reason) insists that each indented line start with an actual
tab--some editors like to insert spaces instead of tabs (edit.com, e.g.)

--- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) -=- httyp!
-=*=-Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.-=*=-
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