Binaries for OS/2 and DOS_(re)

Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:08:57 +0000 (GMT)

Hello, Peter Gerwinski! You wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> GPC binaries for OS/2 and DOS (i.e. for EMX) and for Linux can be
> downloaded from
> 
>   kampi.hut.fi
> 
> directory
> 
>   /jtv/gnu-pascal/binary/turbo-alpha-2.6.3

Thanks. I did download that version, but then could not figure out how to
extract it (got confused with gzip, compress, tar, and everything else and
then got totally lost, because I wasn't even sure any more whether I had
downloaded the correct thing or not). The readme file did not actually
explain how someone from a DOS/Win/OS2 background would go about extracting
the files, and perhaps a version which is compressed with PKZIP might be a
good idea, since that would be accessible to practically everybody.

A further question - does this require GCC to be installed? or is the
package self-contained as it is? If and when I manage to get the whole thing
working, I might try and put together a single ZIP file which contains
everything to get working immediately (i.e., a fully "ready to run" package)
for OS/2 and DOS (and eventually Win32). I think this is a desirable thing
to do, if the target audience is to be widened, because nothing is more
terrifying than having to compile your own compiler or other things like
that (at least, to those of us weaned on DOS Turbo Pascal).

Thanks!

Warmest regards,
The Chief
---------
Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku  (The African Chief)
Keele University, England    (and, The Great Elephant)
Email: laa12@keele.ac.uk      or,  chief@mep.com

A.A. Olowofoyeku (laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk)