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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:48:35 GMT, "Andrew Jones"
<luminous-is AT home DOT com> wrote:

>> >And the GPL definition of "free" is definately not what the normal
>> >person thinks of free.
>>
>> So how should I say it?  It's free in both senses (speech and beer).
>
>I'm not sure what the GPL definition of free is myself (my brain's a little
>foggy right now).  Isn't it something like free for use, not free software?

There are two kinds of free: free speech and free beer.  RMS, when he
created the term "free software," was referring to speech.  The 1980s
term "freeware," meaning royalty-free redistributable binaries, refers
to beer.

>> >It seems to me that the only successful software ever written using
>> >DJGPP is Quake.
>>
>> Damn successful.
>
>True!  However, attempting to base the success of a compiler through one
>product is not a good method of promotion.
>
>Doom, Doom2 (and all commercial Doom derivatives), Death Rally, Descent and
>Descent 2, Tomb Raider, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Fade to Black, Crusader,
>Shattered Steel, KKND, Mechwarrior 2.  There are more.  They may not have *all*
>had commercial success, but 3/4 of them were.  And then there's operating
>systems (DR-DOS and OS/2 as I said).

Q: How many of those came out before DJGPP2 even existed?
A: Everything before Quake.

>> Just add two lines to your autoexec.bat and reboot.  We can't
>> control the fact that many users have the attention span of AOLers.
>
>LOL... true.  But some people who want to start programming honestly don't even
>know what AUTOEXEC.BAT is!

If you're using Windows 95 or Windows 98, pull up Start > Run... type
  edit c:\autoexec.bat
and press Enter.

>Or what an environment variable is.

A lightbulb goes off in my head:  Change the DJGPP version of GCC so
that if it doesn't find a DJGPP environment variable, treat it as
  set DJGPP=[executable's directory]/../DJGPP.ENV

>Or that just using GCC will call the C, C++, Objective-C or assembler,
>depending on the extention of the file.

Other programs treat files with different extensions differently:
GIMP and other paint programs, Word and other editors...

>These are problems inherent in most compilers, but DJGPP makes
>it painfully obvious.  It is derived from a UNIX tool,

GNU's not UNIX(R).

>and hence is by nature going to be confusing and cryptic.

Stereotyping UNIX-like operating systems?

>> Allegro works on Watcom too last time I checked.
>
>I tried it a while back and it refused to compile.  This may have been an older
>version (mid-end 1999), and I haven't tried any recent versions.

Get 3.9.31.

>I just wanted to point a few things out mostly because your
>derisiveness to Watcom bothers me somewhat.

As I said:  Fixed.  The "selling" attitude has been toned down in my
top ten FAQ.

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