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)
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
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