From: Bram de Greve Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: New to DJGPP and programming,please help? Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:01:47 -0800 Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium Lines: 38 Message-ID: <389676CA.778D5422@rug.ac.be> References: <20000128012847 DOT 02031 DOT 00000382 AT ng-fy1 DOT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdlna158.rug.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win16; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com The book you've bought, is it Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (Third edition)? I have the same book and I've had a similar problem. I've concluded that the install progrem s*cks and I've took over his job. How? Well, I you go to to official DJGPP site http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ and you follow the whole thing about getting DJGPP (the ZIP picker), you will found out than the zip-files on the CD-ROM are a huge copy of the ones that are on the FTP server they talk about in the ZIP picker: They have the same name and are in the same directory-structure. So, what I've done is, I told the ZIP-picker what I wanted, he told me what files I needed, and I've took them from the CD-ROM. There are some files that are not up to date with the FTP server, but then you can take similar ones, or decide to download the file anyway. Then, of course, you follow the ZIP-picker instructions to install DJGPP Hope this helps! Bram de Greve MEESES 69 wrote: > I've recently bought a book called SAMS Teach Yourself C++. > It says it includes CD-ROM with DJGPP Compiler. > i selected almost all the options when installing but it didnt put a link to > it in my program files in WIN 98 and when I go to the DJGPP directory most of > the files are unasociated and I cant open them. How do I get I started? > I'm looking for a program like word 97 that opens up, is that how this > works? > I'm totally lost and would appreciate an E-mail with help. Maybe just a few > starting poiinters or hints would help. > I know I should probably read the other SAMS learn programing first but I want > to play a little now.