From: pderbysh AT chat DOT carleton DOT ca (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RSXNTDJ
Date: 7 May 1997 13:10:11 GMT
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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


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



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