Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:07:00 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: can't get started In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, jdm wrote: > I agree it would be nice to have a nice installation program It turns out that writing an installer for DJGPP that will work reliably on all supported platforms is not as easy as it seems. Several good people have tried in the past, and at least one of them is still working on such a program. Issues that make this hard include: DPMI server that is unavailable in plain DOS; long/short file names nuisance; unzip code that needs to be part of the installer; and reliably detecting the different AUTOEXEC files and modifying them so as not to screw up user's machine. It's a tough assignment. > or a > step-by-step list that brings all the various issues involved in > installing and getting djgpp/rhide to work into a single easy-to-read > document. I thing README.1ST is such a document, except that it doesn't describe RHIDE, since not everybody installs it. > Unfortunately, UNIX guys (or gals) are incapable of > comprehending the concept of "easy-to-read". They like to hide > everything in paragraphs and paragraphs of obfuscated techno-babble to > impress the world with the size of their temporal lobes. I don't think this pertains to DJGPP. If you think otherwise, please point out which user-level documentation is guilty of these maladies.