From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: clueless Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:00:05 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 27 Message-ID: <34415675.568B@cs.com> References: <19971012214100 DOT RAA11672 AT ladder02 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp230.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk NGaBear1 wrote: > > trying to find the program to start writing my programs. no clue where my > starting point is, i know the lines of program, but what program do i use? > maybe i am using the correct program to write my lines of my program and its > just something i am doing, but have no clue to what program i start off with Are you looking for an IDE? You don't need anything fancy to write programs; a simple text editor like Windows' Notepad or DOS Edit will suffice. Save the file with a .c or .cc (for C++) extension and compile away. If you want a fancy IDE, there are several that work very well with DJGPP. First, there is RHIDE, a full Turbo C-style IDE designed specifically for DJGPP. Second, there is Emacs, a powerful extensible editor with a somewhat steeper learning curve than RHIDE. Both of these are available on any SimTel site in the same place as DJGPP. After you've written and saved the code, follow the instructions in 'readme.1st' to compile the program, or if you use RHIDE, use its automatic compilation commands. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "Waking a person unnecessarily | | aka Fighteer I | should not be considered a capital | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | crime. For a first offense, that | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | is." - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------