From:	"Ron Grunwald" <RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Organization:	Edith Cowan University
To:	"Eric.Nicolas" <Eric DOT Nicolas AT iota-eso DOT u-psud DOT fr>
Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 1994 12:27:45 GMT+800
Subject:	Re: About SWORD...
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Hello DJGPP Users,
> 
> SWORD is a projet of graphical interface for djgpp and TurboC compilers.
> 
Eric,

Regarding your message:
> A new version is available at : omnigate.clarkson.edu
>              in the directory : pub/msdos/djgpp/pub
> 
> Go and get it, and please tell me what you thought about this work.

A GUI for djgpp sounds very exciting, so I downloaded the software 
and was eager to try it. However, before going any further I already 
encountered some difficulties.

First, because .ARJ compression was used instead of .ZIP, I've had to 
search around for an ARJ  archiving program and learn it first. 
Finding one was not an easy task.

Second, there is no documentation for this software at all! How is it 
meant to be installed and executed? I got an "grSetMode" error when 
executing 'sword.exe'. Why is that? 
Thereafter I tried running 'setup.exe', which responded with a french 
error message mentioning something about SETting envirnoment 
variables.

If you can help me out here, I'll be glad to try it again.

Regards, Ron.


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