From:	spacetime AT gmx DOT net (Joern Philipp Meier)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: libc.a reference for download?
Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 1998 03:08:00 GMT
Organization:	Joern Online
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 21:45:46 -0400 (EDT), DJ Delorie wrote:

>> is the libc.a reference available for download? On www.delorie.com, it
>> says "Please do not download for offline viewing".
>
>Right.  Most automatic downloaders are stupid, and try to download my
>whole site - 12,000 files, 1.6 Gb.  I can't afford to let people do
>that, or nobody would be able to get to the site.

I understand, although I think it's the stupid users not being able to
configure their downloaders properly. Fortunately, I found the whole
documentation on another site, which seemed to permit automatic
downloading.

>> If so many people are doing this and causing problems, I wonder why
>> the whole reference is not available as a ZIP file? At least it's
>> quite important.
>
>You mean like the copy in djdev201.zip ?
>
>Type "info libc"

Well, that's OK (and I have to admit that I forgot about that), but
what about the HTML Version?

Thanks,

Joern

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