From: pneyz <pneyz AT bethany DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: zoneinfo
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:58:58 -0800
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> I have a question that I hope someone might be able to answer.
> I recently started experimenting with Gnu, and it's working
> fine.  And so far I cannot see what the 'zoneinfo' stuff is
> for.  I'm running under Win95 (I know,... I know,...).  Is
> that stuff for X-Windows?  Do I need those files?  There are
> 473 of them, at 32768 bytes each, which is an awful waste
> of disk space if not needed.  Any information would be much
> appreciated.  Thanks.

Strange, but they only take up 309,132 bytes on my system. It doesn't
look like any of them are over 1.5kb either.

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