From: vaniwaar AT ca DOT metsci DOT com (Ronald Van Iwaarden)
Subject: RE: Beta-19 and configurations....
9 Feb 1998 10:53:43 -0800
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To: Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii AT optimedia DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:

> I personally know of some people (from my work) that were afraid of
> gnuwin32 b18 because of the complicated installation proc. (many env.
> vars and directories to be set up to have an actual possibility to
> compile things mostly out-of-box). They just didn't have time and were
> not sure that they will succeed. One of them even had Linux experience
> -- but just thought that the distribution is too raw after he read the
> readme that comes with cdk.exe.

Hmmm. I thought the install was relatively easy and I an new to WIN32
(have always used OS/2 and EMX).  The environment variables are relatively
easy to set once I realized that setting path in the user vars appended it
to the system path.  I agree that it could probably have a slightly nicer
install (setting all the evironment vars would make things easier) but
overall, not bad.

--Ron
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