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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.03 update
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:15:23 -0600 (CST)
Cc: acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au (Andrew Cottrell), djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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> > From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> > Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:45:31 +1100
> > 
> > Should I assume that any exe downloaded from Simtel that does not have a
> > date of "Sun Nov 25 22:31:37 2001" in the stub is does not support Win 2K or
> > XP?
> 
> You should assume that they _might_ not support W2K and XP.  That's
> because some of them might have been built with hacked up versions of
> libc.a which include the W2K patches.

This brings up a good point - some level of testing/qualification of the
packages that are already out on Simtel - if they work or not.  The only
other alternative I see is to rebuild and replace every package ;-(

In my quick experience - I found that programs which nest more than 3 levels
and those who rename to an existing file were very frustrating to use.  
With a handful of updated executables however, I was able to use a stock
2.03 distribution without too many problems.  This gives me the hope that
maybe 80% of the distributions work without too many problems ...

At some point I need to get clio out of the distribution business before
Rice's network admins decided I'm chewing too much bandwidth.  I am currently
getting about 1000 html downloads per day - which means Andrew's work is
getting a lot of attention :-)