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Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:46:32 +0300 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Free is not working? Anyone else having this problem?
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> >  and
> > another thing, when updating to a newer version of gcc and gpp is the only
> > thing you have to do unzipping them and replacing the old files...?
> 
> This should be safe if you're upgrading *from* v2.8.1 or later.  Earlier
> versions had a different directory structure which won't be overwritten,
> so for them you might want to delete the old files first.  (Getting the
> fileutils and doing (cd /djgpp; rm @manifest/gccNNN.mft) is a handy way
> of doing that.)
> -- 

Only one note:
 	all updates of gpp281b.zip (except the latest in October 22, 1998) 
	contained file gxx.exe. To upgrade You should remove this old file
	as it is not overwritten by any newer gpp archive (or replace it
        with one from djdev202.zip, which also contains such file)

Andris

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