To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Distributing djgpp (or any other large package)
Date:	Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:13:01 PDT
From:	Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

>  Laplink is far faster than floppies: I saw it being used to copy 120 meg of
>files from my old PC to my new PC (both desktops), and it went FAR faster and
>easier then copying in floppyfuls.

I'd seriously look into CD-ROM drives.   They are a wonderful
convenience...in addtion:
	1) they're cheap -- you can get a CDROM for about 100 and a recent simtel20 series
	for about $20.

You don't have the headaches anymore of inserted 25 floppies (which is a bit insane...)

The djgpp archive is very well organized in source, documentation and binaries...(dj has
done a nice job).

marty

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