Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:6580 From: iNFiK Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: FAQs Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:37:23 -0700 Organization: Daemonics Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31FA61E3.3FCC@ix.netcom.com> References: <4subeq$dav AT news DOT enterprise DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: srf-ca3-12.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Alistair Hamilton wrote: > > Many of the answers to these queries refer the question setter to the FAQ file. > What I am asking for is a real dumb cluck's guide to getting this. > > I have retrieved faq201s.zip. (Not straightworward, since the "usual sources" > i.e Simtel, to which we are so often pointed in this group are still of 200!".) > I have unzipped it. What I __DON'T__ get is a nice text file that I can read > through to stop me asking stupid questions. I have got a make file, but this > won;t work, because I don't have 'sed'. Since I have no use for this, and I > don't know whence to get it, I am stuck. > > PLEASE, let us have some instructions to help us dummies to help you non-dummies > have a quiet life. Better, give us a simple place to point our ftp clients such > that we can get a FAQ file that can be sent direct to our printers, eve if such > a file is of such vast size that our printers are left spavined, smoking beasts > by the experience. in the djgpp distribution, isf the file ends with a S that means its the source code of somthing. so you got the source of the FAQ, if a filename ends with a B, that means that its allread compiled. so download the faq201b.zip and not the s one.