From: "Steven C. Hendrickson" <hendrick AT pe DOT net>
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Subject: Re: beginner needs advice
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 18:57:02 -0700
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Hi:
    Stay with the DJGPP, provided you can get it up and running.  You didn't
say what error messages you get.

Steve Hendrickson

Steve Winston wrote in message <35F3F38A DOT 1FD4 AT mail DOT psnw DOT com>...
>I'm taking my first C programming course, online with ZDU. For a
>compiler, I downloaded DJGPP. I unzipped the packages and installed as
>instructed on the C drive of my pentium 233mmx. I have tried writing
>simple programs from my textbook, using the editor in DOS mode of Win95.
>But they don't compile. What should I do? Should I make a seperate
>partition entirely and install it there? Should I install it on an old
>computer, all by itself with DOS only? Should I forget it and install
>FreeBSD and its compilers on a partition with Win95? This is my first
>foray into anything so technical so any advise is welcome.
>Thanks much, Steve W.