From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djlsr201 or djtst201 zipfiles Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 01:51:55 -0500 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <34CD840B.7AD4@cs.com> References: <34c96133 DOT 0 AT news DOT intnet DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp205.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Jim Marvel wrote: > > The zip-file-picker indicated that the subject > files might be compilable libraries and/or > test-utilities. > > So, from ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/ > I downloaded djlsr201.zip and > djtst201.zip..... By themselves these files are utterly useless. You must have the actual compiler installed and working to build the sources from scratch, and even then it's a highly non-trivial task. Try going back to the Zip-Picker and telling it you want to compile programs. :-) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "If 'everybody knows' such-and-such, | | aka Fighteer I | then it ain't so, by at least ten | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | thousand to one." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------