From:	"Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Ambitious suggestion for a DJGPP add-on
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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:58:19 GMT
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Could someone whip up one of these?

Active Zip Picker: a program made with RSXNTDJ
that lets the user choose the most common setup
(C/C++, Allegro, and RHIDE on Windows 95/98)
or walks the user through a set of dialog boxes
similar to the Zip Picker. It then checks for the
latest versions. If betas are available, it asks:
    "Do you want a stable release or the latest
    beta that may be more or less stable?"
It tells the default FTP client to download all the
binaries the user picked. It then starts unzip32
(included with AZP) and installs everything to the
folder the user chooses. If the user chooses
/DEV/DJGPP then the program informs the user
that it chose /Program Files/DJGPP instead.
It then changes autoexec.bat to load the
environment and the path and changes DJGPP.ENV
to fix the -lstdcx bug. It then adds a shortcut to RHIDE
(working directory not set) to the Start menu and
associates RHIDE with .c, .cpp, and .gpr files.

Think it would be cool? Could somebody code this up?

Advantages:
No WinZip problems.
No missing files.
Environment is set correctly.
No more -lstdcx bug.

--
Damian Yerrick
CM 398, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
5500 Wabash Ave | Terre Haute, IN 47803
http://come.to/yerrick <- redpinocchio
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