From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Other tools
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 16:31:50 -0400
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Jákup L.D. Michaelsen wrote:
> 
> Greetings
> I just downloaded 5 megs of DJGPP. The compiler itself works great, but I
> was just wondering what all the rest of it is for? I mean a compiler alone
> can't take 5 megs zipped, can it?
> Jakup the NU-B

DJGPP is not just a compiler!  Or rather, it contains quite a bit more
than your average off-the-shelf C/C++ compiler.  For basic compilation
of C programs, all you need is the development environment
(djdev201.zip), binutils (bnu281b.zip), and compiler (gcc280b.zip).  For
C++, you must add the C++ compiler (gpp280b.zip) and libraries
(lgpp280b.zip).  You can also download a Pascal compiler (gpc or gpt),
various Unixy shell tools (fileutils, shellutils, textutils), two
different IDEs (Emacs and RHIDE), a documentation reader (Info), a Unix
shell (bash), a project builder (Make), a database tool, several
graphics libraries, text search and replace tools, a revision control
system, a complete TexInfo system, a database manager, and quite a bit
more including many user-developed tools.  You can also download the
complete source code for all of the above.

In essence, DJGPP strives to have everything you could possible want or
need to develop programs.  :-)

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