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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:06:04 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, chris lee <kifox AT mail DOT geocities DOT com>
Subject: Re: [kifox AT mail DOT geocities DOT com: Subject: Re: gcc and make.exe]
In-Reply-To: <199707130009.UAA23390@delorie.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970807140507.8454P-100000@is>
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Comments?

I have a few comments:

> - ----------------------------
> GETTING STARTED WITH DJGPPP
> (What you should download)
> - ----------------------------

This section doesn't mention Info.  People who use editors without
built-in Info reader (it turns out there's a surprisingly large number
of such DJGPP users) will have hard time without being able to read
the docs.

> If you intend to work in DOS, or run progams created with DGJPPP from DOS
> you'll need the following archive in addition to the ones mentioned
> above:

This should at least explain that ``from DOS'' means ``as opposed to
Windows'', since DJGPP is primarily a DOS-based package.

> In general, download the binary distributions only;

Add a note how should one know which zip are binary.

> - ------------------------------------
> Compiling C/C++ programs using DJGPP
> - ------------------------------------
> 
> Most of the on-line documentation is organized in a special hypertext
> format used by the GNU project.  Each package brings its docs which
> are files with .iNN extension and are unzipped into the info/
> subdirectory of your main DJGPP installation directory.  To browse
> these docs, get and unzip the file txi390b.zip, then run info.exe.  If
> you don't know how to use Info, press `?'.

This paragraph doesn't belong to ``Compiling'', it should be in a
separate section (``The Docs''?).

> - -------------------------------------------
> Debugging C/C++ programs created with DJGPP
> - -------------------------------------------

Why was Debugging moved before the IDE section?  In my book, you edit
and compile the program *before*, not after you debug it.  Besides, a
surprising number of people don't use a debugger at all, so there's no
need to mention it that early in the file.

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