From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: List of DJGPP packages
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:35:43 +0100
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Hello.

Manuel Collado wrote:
[snip]
> I wasn't aware of that. I'm rebuilding the package list by using also
> data from these dsms. In doing so, I've collected the present status of
> dms availability:
[snip]

Thanks for posting those statistics.

> Roughly, half the package archives already have dsms, and figures are
> better if we consider only the most recent version of each package. With
> some (hopefuly moderate) effort, minimal dsms could be build for every
> remaining package.

dsmgen.sh from the pakke distribution may help here. Take a look at
${DJDIR}/contrib/pakke021/scripts/dsm2ver.sh.

Regards,

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