Installing GCC

[a.e.mossberg]

enk at corona (Edan Kabatchnik) writes:
>     If any of you out there are trying to install GCC from the distributions
>found in the /pub/gnu directory on apple.com, I have a word of advice:  the
>file 'gcc-1.35.aux.bin.Z' is actually a tar file.  Moreover, the instructions
>that come with the distribution don't make this clear.  If Apple would
>rename the file to gcc-1.35.aux.bin.tar.Z (or at least make it clear in the
>installation documentation that its), everyone would have an easier time
>bringing GCC up on their A/UX machine.

Someone else complained about that as well. Apple *should've* noted that in the
README.  One thing that annoyed me when ftp from apple was the length of
the names. Instead of doing an 'mget *', I had to do each individual file
renaming it to something unique for 14 characters.  

aem
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