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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:40:18 +0100
From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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To: kmatick AT binghamton DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many pieces
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Bob Kematick wrote:

> Minor Correction :
>
> djdev201.zip and bnu27b.zip are both required.
> 
> Both are too big to fit on 1.4 Mb diskette.

You are correct.  I believe I managed to fit djdev onto
a floppy by gzipping it, but bnu I had to split.

However, why on earth are these in different directories 
if they're both required?  Something which would be IMO
a good thing would be to split the ZIP files up into 
something like:

  v2req		required to get gcc to work
  v2nice	bison/flex, gdb etc.
  v2apps	bash, gawk, etc.
  v2tools	emacs, groff etc.

That way we could just say "to start get everything in
v2req" instead of having to fetch bits from different 
directories (and inevitably forgetting some).  In other 
words a heirarch y going from things everyone needs to 
ones most people won't use (in general most DOS users 
won't be interested in emacs or groff, they'll already
have their favourite text editors and word processors;
I'm unusual in that I use vi and groff on DOS by 
preference).

Chris C