From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject: Re: PDCurses problems..
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MURPHY, Jeremy W <065211 AT bud DOT swin DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
: : "MURPHY, Jeremy W" wrote:
: : [snip]
: : > I had a look to download PDCurses, and the latest version, 2.6, is only
: : > available as an rpm.  Do you know if this is because there is no
: : > difference for DOS since 2.5?  Or is 2.6 source available elsewhere?

: : Is there a source RPM? If you install that, the original source tar file
: : should appear somewhere under /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. That's what happens for
: : me on RedHat 6.2 - the location may have changed in later versions or be
: : different for other Linux distributions.

: But I don't have any Linux to install rpms... is that what you meant?

Well, you did quote a whole post that talked about cross-compiling
from Linux, so how should we know that you don't have any Linux.

Learns this: Don't quote unnecessarily. Don't quote totally irrelevant
information. Tell us _your_ problem instead of building on somebody
else's.


Right,

						MartinS