Comments and questions

[An]

> Right indeed, you should definitely get the latest snapshot releases,
> rather than 2.1.1, but on the development snapshot page:
>
>  http://www.swarm.org/release-swarm-snapshot.html

(1) Swarm on-line FAQ by Paul Johnson (question 3.1) suggested another site 
for downloading the Swarm Windows version: 
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest, where the zipped files 
are much fewer than the above website. What is the difference? BTW, I use a 
Windows XP OS.

(2) In addition, when I was trying to unzip the zipped file 
"Swarm-2.2-pretest-2.tar.gz" from 
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest, the unzipping process 
failed after 5 minutes, and the computer went cracked--I got a warning 
message, "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to 
prevent  damage to your computer. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL,...***STOP: 
0X0000000A (0XC0000000, 0X00000002, 0X00000000,0X804FA688) Beginning dump 
of physical memory, physical memory dump comlete, ...". What is wrong?

(3) What should I do with gcrt0.o and libgmon.a in the website 
ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/ w32/latest? Cannot unzip it--the 
computer (Windows XP) does not know their format and gives out a number of 
optional formats (notepad, excel, etc.) to open it.

(4) Is tar (or untar) a UNIX term? What does it mean?

Regards,

Li An

> there are links to Paul Johnson's RPMs for these snapshot releases for
> Red Hat Linux 7.2 and 7.3 (under GNU/Linux binaries).  Currently we
> are providing binaries for snapshot releases as well as the stable
> release, just for not as many platforms as for the stable release.
>
> If you did not notice these, perhaps we should make them more
> prominent.
>
> A.
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