Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 10:14:06 PST
From: alan AT elroy DOT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov (Alan S. Mazer)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Version 2.5.7 for MSDOS

> This is a question we're seeing over and over again.  Perhaps we should
> make go32 output a (more detailed) statement to this effect when it gives
> up.

A simpler and more general solution is to have this info in the FAQ if no one
has put it in yet.  When I first installed this I had no idea that
maintenance files were available, let alone required.  The "all you need is
these four files" (or whatever) line is misleading.  If I weren't desperate
for a DOS compiler I would just have written the whole thing off as soon as I
tried it and found it didn't work.

-- Alan

P.S.  Thanks on behalf of my C class to DJ for doing the original port and 
      to those people who helped me get through problems like this one.