From: "Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 18:29:44 +0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners? In-reply-to: <38714474.CF8B3E43@a.crl.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Message-ID: <94702535801@out.newmail.net> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 3 Jan 00, at 18:53, Weiqi Gao wrote: > > You mean, it is not enough for Eli to have compiled FAQ.html, and now > he has to write a FAQ.EXE? > I really shouldn't bother replying to this kind of post but here goes... Sorry mate but it seems you've just missed the bus :-). Please look before you leap eh? I wasn't asking Eli to write anything. I was just asking him whether if such a program design would be feasible or not because IMHO just mearly checking the system for potential troubles like missing lstdcx, missing zips would help solve a lot of problems and provide hints for newbies rather than some cryptic error messages. Although we like to bash M$ IMHO one reason we should give Micro$oft credit for is that there OS's and software is so easy to install. Any newbie can get it up and running without much hassle. I don't want to start any flames but IMHO most Linux distributions are pretty hard to install and configure for newcomers which puts them off from trying it. So as you may see just having a easy menu driven install which does simple things like unzipping etc will be quite useful and appeal to all. Grendel