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From: marc AT mpi DOT nl (Marc Fleischeuers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: emx1930*.zip
Date: 25 Jan 1996 09:48:36 +0100
Organization: Max-Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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In-reply-to: piet@stego.cs.ruu.nl's message of 23 Jan 1996 16:58:39 +0100
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In article <wz68e27vio DOT fsf AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl> piet AT stego DOT cs DOT ruu DOT nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:

| >>>>> Manfred Deutsch <md AT fiz-karlsruhe DOT de> (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?

There are some more patches applied to the Simtel-em1930 (mainly
dos-filename handling improvements), and they are repacked. It took
Simtel archivers three weeks longer to respond than DJ, it seemed a
waste not to include Eli's additional patches. The repacking was
mainly to conform more closely to DJ's way of creating a binary
distribution (thus hopefully also to FSF requirements).

Bottom line is: you'd get by with either package, just don't mix them
up. 

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| Piet van Oostrum <piet AT cs DOT ruu DOT nl>
| http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet
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