From: bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: SVGALIB stuff
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 23:34:02 GMT
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"A. Kunigelis" <algikun AT santaka DOT sc-uni DOT ktu DOT lt> was overheard mumbling
incoherently about Re: SVGALIB stuff:



>On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Leath Muller wrote:

>> 
>> Shift to Linux? Ummm...and some people say that DJGPP is hard to set up
>> for the beginner... ;)
>> 
>  Eh? Pressing 'ANY KEY' is also sometimes hard for a beginner ("I can't
>find a key labeled 'any'!"). OK, to be serious Linux is not that hard to

Tell them the "any key" is the one on the front of the computer with
the 1 and 0 on it :-)

>$ dpkg --install binutils.deb gcc.deb ...

>and there we go... And to remove them:

>$ dpkg --purge binutils 

>Once more: Linux is not a beast! Go on and you'll see

It's true that most users of DJGPP wouldn't have much problem with
Linux, but the majority of computer users can't even handle DOS.  In
my AP Computer Science class (Turbo Pascal for Windows 3.1...
ARGH!!!), only two of us know how to run a program that doesn't have
an icon in progman (there are 7 ppl in that class now, but there were
5 others that quit b/c they didn't understand anything)
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