From:	mikegee AT creator DOT dp DOT ua (Mike Gee)
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Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2000 08:43:46 +0200
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000103104759 DOT 14725E-100000 AT is>,  Mon, 3 Jan 
2000 10:48:20 +0200 (IST),  Eli Zaretskii says...

> 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.

Nevertheless. Such 12 MB SFX zips of DJGPP (2.01 & 2.02) are ftp-able 
from Scitech, complete with Win95 installation program. A dream comes 
true :) Don't know what packages are inside, though. 

(You think that 10 MB is huge - wait until you see some 150 MB demos. 
Whatsa dialup?)

-- 
Best regards, Mike

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