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Subject:	updating older programs' stubs (advantages? disadvantages?)
Date:	17 Jan 2007 14:06:56 -0800
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Since DJGPP-compiled stuff is quite popular, I'm just curious: would
there be any known advantages/disadvantages to updating the stubs of
these older programs? In other words, what (if any) functional
differences are there between, say, the v2.00T (1996) stub and the
v2.02T (2001) stub (or even compared to the DJGPP 2.04 beta's 2003,
v2.04T stub)?

Practical example:  Boa 0.58 compressor (stub dated Aug. 26, 1996,
v2.00T), found at ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/boa058.zip . Since the
source to this is unavailable, would it be wise to consider restubbing
it? Anyone have any experience with this?

Oh well, it's not urgent, just curious.

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