Date:	Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:48:20 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Mike Gee <mikegee AT creator DOT dp DOT ua>
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Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Mike Gee wrote:

> > Not quite. For a complete beginner, downloading one self extracting file,
> > putting it in a directory, clicking on it to expand it, and then clicking
> > on one executable to run the whole thing is appealing. Even adding the
> > directory to PATH is optional is you only want to run in the directory.
> 
> So? This can be easily done with DJGPP too.

Not really.  A complete DJGPP installation is very large; make a
single self-extracting zip out of it and you will end up with a huge
program, probably 10MB at least.  And then there are the usual
nuisance questions like whether to include C++, RHIDE, Make, etc.

But I do agree that unzipping several files is not much more
complicated than running a single self-extracting zip.

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