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Wolfgang Schlegel wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded DJGPP and now try to get familiar with it. I'm
> experiencing the common beginner problems and don't want to
> molest any newsgroup with thousands of stupid questions. I really
> do RTFM, but it takes long to find particular information in all
> that plenty. Does anybody know some kind of tutorial dealing with
> the essentials of Environment Variables, Library Search Paths,
> Makefiles, Startup Librarys and such kind of stuff?

I suspect the fundamental problem is that users today are no
longer familiar with use of the DOS command line, autoexec.bat and
config.sys, etc.  Thus many fundamental concepts are missing and
have been lost in the pablum of GUI interfaces.  Unix users are
probably better able to handle MsDos command lines than are
Windoze users today.

People like myself have been using these things for so long that
they are second nature, and thus we don't see newbie problems,
although we can answer questions.  Maybe the best tutorial would
be old DOS books predating the onslaught of windoze.

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