From:	sands AT ihes DOT fr (Duncan Sands)
Subject:	Re: Evian (backwards) question.
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 1994 12:08:42 +0100 (MET)

Eli writes

> There should be two README files in the directory which holds DJGPP.
> The file README.DOC includes a list of files which you must download
> and also tells you what you should download additionally for every
> optional package you want to install.  If the ftp site you are looking
> at doesn't have those files, use another site.  I would suggest to
> download and install the following:

... followed by a list of files and

> This assumes you want both C and C++ development, and the basic
> development tools like Make, Info (hypertext docs reader) etc.
> This is certainly a lot of files (around 10 MBytes compressed),
> but I don't think you can easily get away with less.  I didn't
> include Flex and Bison in the above, because these are rarely
> used (unless you want to rebuild the compiler).  The ftp site
> should also include a file called 00_index.txt which includes
> a list of all files and their short descriptions.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to put this file list in the README or
perhaps in the FAQ?  I suspect just as many people would like a
reasonably complete starting configuration as would like the minimal
configuration, but at the moment only the minimal set of files is
described.  I certainly would have appreciated Eli's list when I
first started with DJGPP (so thanks for posting it Eli!).

Duncan Sands.

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