Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!srgenprp!darrylo From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Subject: Re: Walnut Creek SIMTEL20 Sender: news@srgenprp.sr.hp.com (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 08:43:24 GMT Reply-To: darrylo@sr.hp.com References: <1f.8716.1899.0NC5B5DE@compart.fi> Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9.4] Lines: 38 Riku Saikkonen (riku.saikkonen@compart.fi) wrote: > UH>I miss some packages from the new issue which have been present on > UH>older SIMTEL-CDs - and yes there are newer versions of these > UH>packages on SimTel. Most important for me: DJGPP. > > djgpp isn't included on the new version? Thank goodness I didn't buy it! > djgpp was about the only thing I would really need a new version of. Do > you happen to know if it (v1.11) might be available on some CD-ROM? Could everyone please get their facts straight? DJGPP is NOT on the current SimTel CDROM because DJGPP WAS NOT ON SimTel when the CDROM was made! How can something be put on the SimTel CDROM when it is not on SimTel? Here's the abridged history of the DJGPP/SimTel saga: Once upon a time, DJGPP is uploaded to Simtel20 (and it may have been periodically updated). After a long period of DJGPP *NOT* being updated on Simtel20, the Simtel20 maintainers decide to DELETE DJGPP, because the copy on Simtel20 is VERY OUT OF DATE with respect to the current DJGPP (there's more to the story than this, but I'm keeping my mouth shut). At this point, the current SimTel CDROM is made, *WITHOUT* DJGPP, as DJGPP is not on SimTel. Later, with DJGPP 1.10, DJGPP is again uploaded to SimTel, and is later updated to DJGPP 1.11 and DJGPP 1.11maint. Could everyone please stop acting like idiots? Thank you. -- Darryl ("Help! My kill file is full!") Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the little green men that have been following him all day.