To Robert Ruehlmann:

 - I'm sending this one up because the original version of this 
source had a bug in files.c, a missing pair of brackets: 
"if isalpha(k)" should have read "if (isalpha(k))", which caused 
it to not compile properly in BCC. Evidently the people who 
compiled it for other platforms were using a different compiler
which compensated for this (or, more likely, fixed the file 
individually off their own bat before putting up their compiled 
versions, without bothering to send the fix to the actual 
maintainer.)

I also enclose a version of makefile.bcc, which was not previously 
present in old versions of ZAngband. Apart from files.c being 
corrected, and the addition of makefile.bcc for those using BCC 
to compile, this is identical to the current version of the 
source of ZAngband 2.2.8, and is a simple replacement for the 
current zipfile "zangband-2-2-8-src.zip". As various versions of 
old-ZAngband are still in use as a basis for variants, there may 
be still some demand for this, especially for Windows compiles.

(I have managed to make a ZAngband.exe file using this makefile, 
so it can be and has been done.)

I promise that I have *NOT* altered any other source file, or 
indeed any of the info.txt files, in any way: this is not an
infamously altered JLE version masquerading as the real thing ;-)

And you probably don't need to put this text file up as an explanation...

Jonathan Ellis.