From: Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk
Message-Id: <20562.9607161235@ws-ai5.dur.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: DJGPP HELP!!!!!
To: ccjm AT dstn06 DOT dct DOT ac DOT uk (Colin MacDonald)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:35:51 +0100 (BST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <1996Jul16.103301.2010@zippy.dct.ac.uk> from "Colin MacDonald" at Jul 16, 96 10:33:01 am
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> In article <31EAFEE1 DOT 6CA6 AT esper DOT com>, Steve Cox <foozy AT esper DOT com> writes:
> |> I'm just starting out programming and i need to Know were i can get a good DJGPP 
> |> tutorial?
> 
> RTFM (or the FAQ in this case). It's on the site where you got DJGPP, and if you
> spend five minutes going through the documentation, you'll discover that DJGPP is
> definitely NOT a good package if you are learning C. I have been using UNIX C
> for about five years now, and I still have trouble with DJGPP.
> 
> Try something like Turbo C/C++ or Visual C, or read a book. DJGPP is written by

I disagree with you to the extent that I learnt C and C++ on djgpp. Ok I knew
other languages beforehand, but some aspects of djgpp are much clearer: you have
a flat 4Gb memory space, no messing around with segments in C (god knows what
they were doing in C anyway...), no messing around with funny globbing, and so
on. Also, you have plenty of helpful people available by e-mail, not some
useless semi-trained ``tech hotline''.

I would agree with you in some respects. For instance, I only have the info
file for libg++, and it sure is hard to see what libg++ files go with what
documentation. Similarly, you have to look to find information about AT&T
syntax. The intel syntax is all around, in any book...

If you don't have e-mail, ftp access, etc, djgpp would be hard.

Sengan