Message-Id: <199710220932.WAA09065@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>
Subject: Re: Some comments and questions
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:32:35 +1300 (NZDT)
From: "Kris Heidenstrom" <kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971022104120.7037H-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 22, 97 10:46:27 am
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Hi Eli,

> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kris Heidenstrom wrote:
> 
>> And it's free!  Wow!  The only thing missing is the editor, but any
>> programmer will have his/her own favourite editor already.
> 
> You might try RHIDE (v2apps/rhide14b.zip) or Emacs (v2gnu/emacs.README) 
> which both support DJGPP and are compiled with DJGPP.

No, I already have a favourite editor, and I'm one of those people you
refer to in your FAQ as despising uGNUsable programs like EMACS :-)

>> Debugging with gdb was an experience!  I'm used to Borland's Turbo
>> Debugger and found gdb very awkward by comparison.
> 
> Try the debugger built into RHIDE, or the stand-alone RHGDB (should be 
> inside rhide14b.zip), or FSDB which comes with djdev201.zip.
>
> Also, please note that the DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip) describes the 
> available packages in section 4.5; you might consider browsing that 
> section when you are looking for alternatives.

Okay, thanks for the suggestions.

Regards

Kris
-- 
Kris Heidenstrom   kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz   Wellington, New Zealand
               Electronic designer and programmer
       "Good sense is the most valuable good on the market"