From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.01 Upgrading. Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 21:20:04 -0800 Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 40 Message-ID: <328AAC04.7848@cs.com> References: <56drji$ubg AT news DOT inconnect DOT com> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp108.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stuart Thorpe To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Stuart Thorpe wrote: > > I am wondering a few things: > > 1) What files are needed to upgrade (I don't want to spend the day > downloading everything). You must get all the new djXXX201.zip files, as they contain the bulk of the changes. Also, all the old GNU files have been rebuilt with v2.01, and updated versions have been provided as well. As Eli posted, using v2.00 programs with v2.01 programs can cause problems with long command lines. You do not need to download any of the "accessory" files, like allegro, rhide, cwsdpmi, grx, unless you want to, but the rest of your programs should be updated as soon as you have the time to spare. > 2) What changes am I going to see in the way I write code. I noticed a few > people saying there 2.0 stuff doesn't work in 2.01.. The only major change was not a DJGPP change but a result of the new version of the GNU assembler which more strictly enforced operand suffixes in assembly, thus breaking some old programs. The biggest problem was Allegro, which has two lines in the bank.S file with invalid suffixes. Other changes are mostly improvements on existing functionality, such as long filename support, coupled with a large number of relatively trivial library code fixes. The few bugs that manifested in the preliminary release were immediately corrected, so the latest versions of the distribution files should be good to go, so to speak. :) HTH! -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Proud owner of what might one | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | day be a spectacular MUD... | Plan: To make Bill Gates suffer | ---------------------------------------------------------------------