Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:06:04 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: DJ Delorie cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, chris lee Subject: Re: [kifox AT mail DOT geocities DOT com: Subject: Re: gcc and make.exe] In-Reply-To: <199707130009.UAA23390@delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, DJ Delorie wrote: > Comments? I have a few comments: > - ---------------------------- > GETTING STARTED WITH DJGPPP > (What you should download) > - ---------------------------- This section doesn't mention Info. People who use editors without built-in Info reader (it turns out there's a surprisingly large number of such DJGPP users) will have hard time without being able to read the docs. > If you intend to work in DOS, or run progams created with DGJPPP from DOS > you'll need the following archive in addition to the ones mentioned > above: This should at least explain that ``from DOS'' means ``as opposed to Windows'', since DJGPP is primarily a DOS-based package. > In general, download the binary distributions only; Add a note how should one know which zip are binary. > - ------------------------------------ > Compiling C/C++ programs using DJGPP > - ------------------------------------ > > Most of the on-line documentation is organized in a special hypertext > format used by the GNU project. Each package brings its docs which > are files with .iNN extension and are unzipped into the info/ > subdirectory of your main DJGPP installation directory. To browse > these docs, get and unzip the file txi390b.zip, then run info.exe. If > you don't know how to use Info, press `?'. This paragraph doesn't belong to ``Compiling'', it should be in a separate section (``The Docs''?). > - ------------------------------------------- > Debugging C/C++ programs created with DJGPP > - ------------------------------------------- Why was Debugging moved before the IDE section? In my book, you edit and compile the program *before*, not after you debug it. Besides, a surprising number of people don't use a debugger at all, so there's no need to mention it that early in the file.