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- From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: WANT GCC? FORGET FAQ.GCC AND README?? READ THIS FIRST!!!!
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 15:48:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Lines: 87
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- References: <1992Sep4.102532.4493@fys.ruu.nl> <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
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-
- In a previous article, hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) says:
-
- >>You will also need 097.tar.Z (or something like that) from
- >>/pub/linux/sources/system
- >
- >???????
- >You need at least 0.97 pl 1 source code to work with GCC 2.2.2d. A file
- >097.tar.Z does NOT exist at that place, and you're just confusing people!
-
- so the source code isn't there???? I suggest you check again.
- Notice I said I MIGHT have the filename wrong.
-
- >>This is the linux source code. Get the patches if you want them.
- >>(I personally haven't figured out what to do with them. :) )
- >
- >So: You're stupid, and probably never read any manual at all!!!
-
- There is no manual.....just a hodge-podge of faqs, readme's, and
- release notes.
-
- >You always keep files in the root-dir?
-
- where in the FAQ does it day to put them??? tell me....tell me...
-
- >>mcd c:\<the dos dir with the above files>
- >>mcopy c:*.* .
- >
- >This definitely WON't WORK! You'll probably get something
- >along the lines of
- >
- > mcopy: no match
- >
- >the command should probably read :
- >
- > mcopy c:\* .
- >
- >READ THE MTOOLS manuals!
-
- I did........but my command does work. Perhaps you don't have a recent
- version. I don't know what your probelm is. I use that command EVERDAY
- and I never get an error. Don't be so haste to correct, oh infallible
- Linux-Pope
-
- >NONSENSE. This is not a limitation of the OS, but of the filesystem.
- >The Unix System V(R) filesystem as this limitation, and linux's standard
- >filesystem, the minix-one, has this too. The linux DOS filesystem has
- >a limitation of 8 with an extension of 3, the linux extended filesystem 255.
-
- i dont have and extended filesystem.....now tell me how to get around
- this problem.....
-
- >>cd /usr/src/linux
- >
- >Wrong directory
-
- what dir then????? And where does it say that??????
-
- >I planned to go on to the end, but sorry, I'm exhausted. What a nonsense.
- >You have really no idea what you're doing, and giving BAD ADVICE all over.
- >I suspect this is another plot from a unix copyright owner on Linux, as
- >was the TSX-11 ftp-criticism. No smilies @#$!
-
- why is it such bad advice????? I would love to have the instruction in the
- FAQ.GCC, etc. work......but they didn't. So I did this.....and it worked.
- you don't seem to want to stoop down to my level to help me with
- this "meager" problem. Read "apologies but I still need help" if you
- really want to help people out.
- >
- >>--
- >>MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- >>Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
- >>mal11@po.cwru.edu side left or right/To love or to hate."
- >> -A Strange Kind of Love
- >
- >That's what KILL files are good for....
- >--
- >Rob Hooft, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research,
- >Chemistry department University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
- >hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl hooft@cc.ruu.nl
- >
-
- --
- MaThiEu a. LeWis "There is no middle ground/Or that's how it seems/For
- Thieves Like Us us to walk or to take/Instead we tumble down/Either
- mal11@po.cwru.edu side left or right/To love or to hate."
- -A Strange Kind of Love
-