From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 01:33:47 GMT
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On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 07:43:12 -0600, Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
wrote:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> What makes you think they will bother to read the short descriptions?
>> People who expect everything to just work will simply choose the
>> defaults and let it go.
>
>In this day and age of broadband internet and 10GB hard disks, the
>really lazy can do the following:
>
>1. Download the entire DJGPP archive.

Heck, the fsckin _service pack_ for M$VC is bigger than all of DJGPP!

>2. Unzip everything into C:\DJGPP, preserving directories.
>3. Set DJGPP environment and PATH.
>And they are good to go!  No need for an installer.

Except to put the customized DOS box (a la Red Hat Cygwin)
into Start > Programs > DJGPP to handle step 3.

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