Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:569 From: piet AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: emx1930*.zip Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:58:39 +0100 Organization: Universiteit Utrecht, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 26 Sender: piet AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: stego.cs.ruu.nl In-reply-to: Manfred Deutsch's message of Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:20:42 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp >>>>> Manfred Deutsch (MD) writes: Eli> There is no other site. The version of 19.30 on DJ's server includes Eli> many bugfixes to the original GNU 19.30 release, so even if you get the Eli> GNU distribution and recompile, you won't have some of the DOS-specific Eli> fixes that the above binary has installed. >> >> There is a version on (some) simtel mirrors -- incomplete at Imperial >> College, for instance -- in the msdos/editors directory. This is its >> announcement file. Is this the same thing (it is somewhat patched) or >> is it inferior? The definitive answer probably ought to replace the >> one currently in the Emacs FAQ. Thanks for the efforts anyhow. >> MD> [some lines deleted] >> MD> I checked the file sizes of the files em1930??.zip on delorie.com and MD> on ftp.uni-koeln.de, directory: /pc/msdos/gnuprogs. These are MD> exactly the same. So I would guess the contained files should be the same, MD> too. On the other hand, the simtel files have different file sizes. Does this mean that they only have been differently packed, or is it a different compilation? -- Piet van Oostrum http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet