Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:05:40 -0400 Message-Id: <199610131905.PAA02879@delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: (message from Mark Habersack on Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:00:41 +0200 (MET DST)) Subject: Re: Install thingy > 1. Should I take into account a possibility that DJGPP will be installed > from floppies? This would require reorganizing the layout of files and > also splitting some of them I see no reason not to allow that, since not everyone has a cd-rom drive. I don't know who will be *creating* the floppies, though. > 2. Can I assume that all .zip files are packed using the Deflate algorithm? > I use zlib 1.04 to decompress them and this version supports only > Deflate. I can't guarantee what format infozip will use. > 3. What structure of packages should I assume when DJGPP is being installed > from CD/HDD. I imagine that there would be a need to create separate > data files for each of these scenarios. Will the packages be stored in > the same structure as on SimTel sites or just in one common directory? I haven't decided yet, but the CD-ROM I'm thinking of doing will be pre-installed, so you only have to set your PATH and DJGPP variables to point directly at the CD-ROM. It will have the zips on it also, probably in the simtel structure, since simtel has more in it than my hard drive.