Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/29/21:41:26
Derek Greene wrote:
>
> I use DJGPP. This question applied to DJGPP's C library. Henceforth it's
> not off topic, and the rudeness was from you. Have a nice day. :-)
From the comp.os.msdos.djgpp charter:
# comp.os.msdos.djgpp will be a newsgroup dedicated to all aspects of
# DJGPP, which is a port of several GNU utilities and development tools
# to DOS. Areas which would be welcome for discussion:
#
# 1. Support for applications compiled with this package
# 2. Installation and configuration advice
# 3. Help with environment specific features, such as hardware
interrupts
# 4. Advice on porting code to this environment and status of ports
# 5. Discussions on adding features and new releases
# 6. Brief (20 lines or less) announcements of new or major release
DJGPP
# related commercial/shareware/freeware products, with a pointer to
# web/ftp/email for more information. Products may be briefly
# mentioned in replies to specific problems.
#
# Areas which would be inappropriate:
#
# 1. Material which is covered in the FAQ (available from
oak.oakland.edu:
# /pub/msdos/djgpp/faq100.zip and other simtel mirrors). A mini-FAQ
# with a pointer to the full FAQ will be posted weekly.
# 2. Questions or bug reports on GNU code not specific to DJGPP. If the
# user cannot determine if a bug is DJGPP specific, an brief initial
# posting would be acceptable.
# 3. General programming questions.
I think (3) of Inappropriate describes your post.
To clarify: For a post to be on-topic, it must not only apply to DJGPP,
but be *specific* to DJGPP. Thus, "How do I round to an integer?" is
inappropriate, since although DJGPP implements integer rounding, the
question applies to the entire C language, and so is not specific. A
specific question might involve the implementation of DJGPP's `rint', or
a bug therein. For this post, comp.lang.c would have been better. It
is not necessary that you read a group in order to post to it; an
archive search a few days after posting will often suffice.
comp.os.msdos.djgpp tends to be rather lenient about such posts; let's
not abuse it!
--
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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