From: "Davin McCall" <DavMac AT iname DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: 28 Mar 1999 10:44:16 GMT
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Louis P. Santillan <lsantil AT calstatela DOT edu> wrote:
>And
> in fact I have to disagree about easy of use...how hard is it to
> do this
> c:
> cd\
> md djgpp
> cd djgpp
> pkunzip -d c:\djinst\*.zip

let's be fair: the installation isn't quite that simple. You also have to
set up the environment variable, DJGPP, and you need to modify the PATH.
Plus, before you can do the above you need to actually have Pkunzip, it
needs to be in the path etc, and even then it may truncate long file names,
which may mean you have to make further changes.

DJGPP simple to install? It's one of those "it's easy, once you know how"
things. It may even take a little while to work out which zip files you
need; the rest is fairly trivial (especially if you actually read the
README.1ST file), but still requires a reasonable working knowledge of DOS
- which some people trying to install DJGPP may not have, believe it or
not.
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