From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: what is COUNTRY dir needed for?
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 18:10:19 -0800
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Marius Triukas wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> Sorry for silly question, but after getting zip'ed DJGPP installation and
> unpacking it I found IMHO strange directory COUNTRY (or something like
> that) in C:\DJGPP. There were much small files named like a capitals of
> various countries (I'm plesed there's 'Vilnius' :) but I don't understand
> what are those files needed for. So maybe anyone can tell me that?

If you are referring to the ZONEINFO directory, those files are timezone
data files that are used by some programs to calculate the correct time
anywhere in the world.  If you don't use or write any DJGPP programs
that need to have this data, it's perfectly fine to compress or delete
it.

For more information, look in the DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions list
(v2/faq202b.zip from SimTel), section 22.16.

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