Message-ID:	<B0000025904@nordhorn.de>
Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:34:29 +0100
From:	Jens Luedicke <jens AT irs-net DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
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> I disagree.  The number of times the ``easy-to-install'' software
> botched
> my and others' systems is so large that I tend not to install
> anything.
I agree. I usually don't use software with install/setup programs,
too.

There's a little story;

I use ActiveSTATE's Perl to run my perl-scripts locally. After you
have
downloaded the Setup-File and you want to start it, you get a message
that the Setup-Program could hang under unknown circumstances.
I wrote a mail to ActiveSTATE, where I asked for a version of their
Perl
distribution without a Setup-Program and only as an Zip-File.
They said, that they won't do that. Finally, after many
trial-and-error
runs I managed it to install it without problems (In the "Safe Mode"
on Win9x)


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