Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/12/19/05:00:34
CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message news:<3FBADA99 DOT 696417EA AT yahoo DOT com>...
> 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.
Can it be so fundamental though? All i did was read the install
notes, in essense saying to unzip somewhere suitable and add two lines
to autoexec.bat restart and go. It worked a charm.
Although I've used DOS arcana often enough to be comfortable around it
having been a pre-gui user too, I didn't feel that that experience was
essential to setting up DJGPP. Even compiling allegro was as simple
as 'make'. DJGPP and most extras are packaged up very well indeed. I
suppose if someone has never used a CLI it might be a jump in mindset,
but that does surprise me - especially with programming tools.
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