From: "Neil Miller" <miller AT citilink DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Ideas for DJGPP.
Date: 3 Dec 1996 20:58:40 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in article
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 961203082339 DOT 3181E-100000 AT is>...

> That's exactly the way I did it.  How?  I've just Read the Fine Manuals. 

> Yes, it does take more than 5 minutes to learn, but I don't have any 
> sympathy for those who can't invest more than that in a subject that they

> are supposed to be professional about.

What about the people that do take the time to read and still don't get it?
 I started using TC++ 4.5, you can only use windows programs with it.  The
manual never had any tutorial or lessons, all it said was her's a source
file you can change it and learn to make a game.  If you've used OWL and
windows before 
you know these are complicated and confusing, especially since TC++ is
supposed to be a beginner's compiler.  I'm glad I finally found DJGPP and I
can actually program instead of trying to figure out how to display a
window, then add words, and it gets more and more complicated.  Give people
a break, most of us newbies began with GW-BASIC or QBASIC, not exactly your
onramps to C.

Most people on NGs will answer questions people have, so that helps a lot. 
The only real manual is the answers you get to problems you actually
encounter, not some that the people who made the program expect you to
encounter.  If they even tried putting all that in a book, some person
would come along and need a completely different book.  Sorry about the
ramblin'.


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