From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: When will V2 be updated?
Date:	Wed, 09 Oct 1996 20:16:02 -0700
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To:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
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A.Appleyard wrote:
> 
>   I am still using v1, and I want to try v2. But when I looked at
> ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/packages/simtel/vendors/v2/ and ..../v2gnu/ (my
> most convenient Simtel site) just now, everything was dated February 1996!!!
>   (1) When will the Simtel copy of v2 be updated? When was it last updated?

The latest update of v2 is February 22, 1996.  Some files (those that
weren't changed in the update) are dated earlier.

>   (3) Where else can I get djgpp v2 from?

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2*

Or any of a zillion other places listed in the FAQ.

>   (4) A readme file that I found there said that .../v2/ contained djgpp v2,
> and .../v2gnu/ contained programs written in c2 C/C++. But .../v2gnu/ seemed
> to contain much of the important parts of v2 djgpp. What is the actual
> difference between these 2 FTP directories?

Everything in the v2* directories is part of DJGPP v2.  However, the /v2
directory contains the djgpp-specific parts of the compiler tools, and
/v2gnu contains the ports of the GNU tools which form the core of the
compiler (amongst other things).  This is so it is obvious which parts
of the distribution are purely for djgpp alone.

Theoretically, you could go to any GNU site and download the sources for
each of the GNU packages listed in the /v2gnu directory and build them
on a DOS box using djgpp.  However, AFAIK most if not all need
substantial DOS-specific modifications before they will work properly. 
That's why there are always two distributions available - binary and
source.  The source is there so you can have access to code that's
already gone through the (painful) process of porting to DOS.

Isn't freeware great?  You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time
you do something new.  :)

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