From:	Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Subject:	Re: c++ For Dummies
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efgendron AT vif DOT com wrote:
: To Whom it may concern;  Ihave tried to install your program from the cd that
: came with your book C++ For Dummies.  I'm not a computer hacker nor am I that 
: dumb when it comes to installing programs from a disk but your instructions
: in chapter 1 and in tha accompanying readme files were somewhat convoluted and
: how do you safely change or add to autoexec.bat? Where on the cd is gnu C++
: compiler?  As you can tell, things did not go well. I hope you can help me,
: otherwise I will consider this book as a bad investment and buy VB C++
: compiler.

Note that problems with any installation program in books, does not
concern us directly. It's the publisher's problem.

You don't need any book to have DJGPP: <http://www.delorie.com>.

The book is probably describing an old version of C++ anyway (a lot of
them are). If you post their hello world program here (should be early
in the book), we should be able to tell.


Right,

						MartinS

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