Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/21/00:34:26
On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> Peter Berdeklis wrote:
> >
> > I have gzip version 1.2.4, which is the newest I could find on the SimTel
> > mirrors. It dates itself Aug 18, 1993. It's definitely v1.x.
> > Downloaded the source to re-compile it, but I haven't downloaded sed so
> > it'll have to wait.
>
> You didn't look hard enough at SimTel: gzip comes with the DJGPP
> distribution. It's available as
> <ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gzp124b.zip>, or
> whatever other SimTel mirror you use. Many of the GNU utilities have
> already been ported to DJGPP, so always check there first!
That is exactly the file that I have downloaded, gzip version 1.2.4. If
you do gzip -V it responds:
gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
Compilation options:
NO_DIR UTIME STDC_HEADERS NO_MULTIPLE_DOTS NO_CHOWN PROTO ASMV
Note the date is 18 Aug 93. I assume that is the compilation date,
because the doc's in the source specify DJGPP v1.x, although the file
stamp on simtel is Oct 19, '96. If not then I suspect that the problem is
the compilation option NO_MULTIPLE_DOTS. Either way, gzip has to be
recompiled to create a proper .info.gz extension.
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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto
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