From: David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: A Very New Beginner
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:57:07 +0100
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In article <199708031806 DOT OAA11146 AT delorie DOT com>, DJ Delorie
<dj AT delorie DOT com> writes
>
>> How about if someone wrote a small doc explaining how to unzip the .zips
>> into a Djgpp folder, then how to put the SETs stuff into Autoexec.bat,
>> then put this small doc on a site, all you'd need to do then is reply
>> with the URL pointing to the doc??
>
>You mean like ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/readme.1st
>or http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/simtel/v2/readme.1st
>
Yeah, but some Newbies are still asking in the NG how to install it.
I was just thinking that adding an Install.txt file to the distribution
would ease the problem some people have with these posts. I posted a
very brief step by step install.txt type thing earlier in this thread. I
reckon if all the waffle about upgrading from Version1 to 2 was cut out
in this new doc, it'd make it clearer and foolproof for newbies.

>> Maybe the man himself DJ Delorie would like to do it.
>
>Apparently, I already did. :-)

We know. :)


BTW
I myself don't even have a problem with Newbies asking how to install
DJGPP, some people seem to have a problem with it. I've tried putting
something in which could ease it, BUT it appears to me that nobody seems
interested in solving the problem. Nobody else appears to have offered
any solutions, why??

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