Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 16:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Isaac Yates <ihyates AT mail DOT pcmagic DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Installing DJGPP
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At 12:03  10/10/1997 -0700, Isaac Yates wrote:
>I downloaded djgpp about a week ago and installed it on my system.
>However, it had problems finding the .h files when I tried to compile
>sample code. I did not set the files to the djgpp directory, but made a
>directory called langdev. Is that one reason why I had trouble setting
>up??
You mean that you unzipped everything in a directory called "c:\langdev"? In
that case, you need to have these lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET DJGPP=c:/langdev
SET PATH=C:\LANGDEV\BIN;%PATH%

>Also, how does djgpp's g++ compare with bc++ and vc++?? Are there any
>advantages of using g++(other than price) and is g++ worth downloading
>for DOS?
REALLY, REALLY bad question to ask here. We've just finished a few flamewars
over that exact question. My only advice is: Try it and see.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net