Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/07/23/19:11:25
On Sun, 21 Jul 1996, Alistair Hamilton wrote:
> Many of the answers to these queries refer the question setter to the FAQ file.
> What I am asking for is a real dumb cluck's guide to getting this.
>
> I have retrieved faq201s.zip. (Not straightworward, since the "usual sources"
> i.e Simtel, to which we are so often pointed in this group are still of 200!".)
> I have unzipped it. What I __DON'T__ get is a nice text file that I can read
> through to stop me asking stupid questions. I have got a make file, but this
> won;t work, because I don't have 'sed'. Since I have no use for this, and I
> don't know whence to get it, I am stuck.
Well, had you downloaded the proper file, you would be up and on
your way. However, you didn't so that explains everything. :o)
The faq files is faq201b.zip. Not faq201s.zip.
*ALL* files that have a "b" at the end are binaries, and all files
that have a "s" file on the end are sources. If you get the binaries,
you can start with them right away. Otherwise, you must go through the
painfully insane compilation process which requires you having several
other programs (ironically they are outlined in the faq). :o)
> PLEASE, let us have some instructions to help us dummies to help you non-dummies
> have a quiet life. Better, give us a simple place to point our ftp clients such
Point your FTP client to:
ftp://ftp.simtelnet.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq201b.zip
I might have a slight mistake in the above URL, but it is pretty close.
Good luck.
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