From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: What files do I Really need?
Date: 14 Jun 1998 08:18:48 GMT
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On Tue, 09 Jun 1998 18:50:57 -0400 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp John
M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:

: Walter Gray wrote:

: > I am in favour of anything that is super-pared-down. I still use MS
: > quick-C and turbo-C version 1.5. As for "helping design", my main
: > contribution would be to fetch the pizza and say "more comments".

: What you could do is help figure out which files really are absolutely
: necessary by trying out various combinations on your system.  Figure out
: what you, a novice user, seem to need or not need.

I did this some time ago, but I think at the time people had mixed
feelings about whether or not providing this would be a good thing to
do.  I got it down below 5Mb, fitting on two floppies when zipped,
including everything needed for C compilation, libc docs, FAQ (text),
binaries for Make and Info, and perhaps some other things that I've
forgotten at the moment.  For C++ compilation, it was just necessary
to drop in the C++ packages at the time; that was gcc-2.7.2.1 though.

The trouble is that in a cut-down distribution like this some
components are missing and people might come to this newsgroup to
complain about this, without reading the readme (which would say where
they can get the full packages, of course).

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