From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: djgpp obscurity (was Re: C books)
Date: 14 Jun 1998 00:48:58 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT OSF DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980613181628 DOT 4770A-100000 AT InfoNET DOT st-johns DOT nf DOT ca>,
Chris Fifield <ubd2011 AT InfoNET DOT st-johns DOT nf DOT ca> writes:
[snip]
>I'm current learning C using Dan Gookin's "C For Dummies volume I & II" and 
>find them to be an excellent read.  The author also maintains a web site 
>with follow-up lessons to the books!  It is on this site, 
>www.c-for-dummies.com, where I first heard about DJGPP from Mr. Gookin's 
>recommendation of it for use with his books.

Well, for all the complaining that I've heard about the "for dummies" series,
this is definately one good thing.  I wonder why djgpp isn't ever mentioned in
O'Reilly books and GNU docs.  

Maybe because no one pays for it to be publicized--still, it's weird that
people are so surprised to find that someone has made a couple UNIX-type
utilities for DOS, without anyone ever pointing out that a whole slew of GNU
utils have been ported already.

--Ed (Myknees)