From: John Lawrence <jlaw AT mail DOT nerc-bas DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: A Very New Beginner
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:24:52 +0100
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mapson wrote:
+> 
+> On Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:57:07 +0100, David Jenkins
+> <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
+> 
+> >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??
-> 
-> Go here for exactly this:
-> http://www.rt66.com/~brennan/djgpp/
> 
> >>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.
*> 
*> Exactly. In fact, if you go in to other newsgroups, like the
*> everimposing rec.games.programmer, talk about DJGPP inevitable gets
to
*> "hard to install" as a deterrant to using.
<snip>
> I always refer people to Brennan's site,

It might be useful if the FAQ could be split into 2 or 3 documents.
I remember when I got djgpp up and running it took a while to work out
which bits of the FAQ I actually needed to know..
Maybe (i) an 'Installing FAQ' telling us which files we need, where they
go,
how to change AUTOEXEC etc...
   (ii) a 'Compiler FAQ' - how it works, which command line options I
need,etc
   (iii) an 'Advanced FAQ' - Allegro/Graphics/Other programming stuff.

just my two pennies..
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