From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: N8TM@aol.com
To: mdb@lanl.gov
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: egcs install
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:43:00 -0000
Message-id: <384cec98.35985060@aol.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg01066.html

In a message dated 6/29/98 1:42:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mdb@lanl.gov
writes:

> I've just downloaded the egcs-whatever.rpm for my linux
>  system.  I downloaded it from win95 (I have a dual boot) and
>  then tried to install it using the rpm program and it tells
>  me it does not appear to be a rpm file.  I am new to linux.

This posed no problem for me, but this file, like .gz files, must be received
in win95 and transferred to linux as a binary file.