Message-ID: <3255BA4B.5A20@cs.com> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 18:30:51 -0700 From: "John M. Aldrich" Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Serge Golovin CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: readme.1st file included in distribution? References: <199610041103 DOT PAA23842 AT marstu DOT mari DOT su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Serge Golovin wrote: > > I think its made intentionally to let people know about DJGPP before they > download anything. It lists the DJGPP package and gives instructions "What > to download". So, people will know what they need and where to get it. > Therefore this file _must_ exist outside of any archives. Of course! I never meant to suggest otherwise. :) However, since it also contains much information about setting up and using DJGPP, it is as valuable after you have downloaded as before. > At the same time I cant see any reason not to include it somewhere (any > suggestions about reasonable place for it?) Perhaps in each of the dj***201.zip packages, so there's no chance of missing it. Actually, the best thing to do would be to put it in _every_ package, including the /v2gnu packages. After all, everybody expects to find a README file in everything they download, right? l8r -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | * Proud user of DJGPP! * | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | ObJoke: If Bill Gates were a robber, not only would he | | shoot you, but he'd send you a bill for the bullets. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------