From: Serge Golovin Message-Id: <199610070829.MAA10622@marstu.mari.su> Subject: Re: readme.1st file included in distribution? To: fighteer AT cs DOT com Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:28:59 +0400 (MSD) Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: <3255BA4B.5A20@cs.com> from "John M. Aldrich" at Oct 4, 96 06:30:51 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1307 Hello! John M. Aldrich wrote: > > Serge Golovin wrote: > > 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. Since you get readme.1st - you have it. Downloading needed packages you cant delete readme.1st which you have got before right? :-) > 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? Sure. But README file must contain information about contents of package and nothing more (IMHO) and there are info files in every package which are playing role of READMEs. File readme.1st tells about DJGPP in common and doesnt fit for explaining everything about every package - readme1st is just _first_ inforamtion. However if people get confused with absence of README there is nothing easier but provide little README which tells how to run info and how to get readme.1st. But is there need for this? (DJ?) bye -- With best regards, Serge Golovin AKA RES