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Phil wrote:

> I chose to try DJGPP because it stated on the homepage that it was
> suitable for beginners and seemed to be quite established, so I haven't
> looked at any other compilers yet. However, there seems to be an
> inordinate amount of 'exceptions' to previous standards, different tools
> and a lot of flexibility, which no doubt make it popular to experienced
> programmers but does tend to make it overcomplicated to the novice (or
> at least me, anyway). Does anyone know of a more basic, freeware
> compiler that I could try? Alternatively, can anyone tell me why I
> should persevere with DJGPP?
>
> Thanks again.
> Phil.

Thanks all for your replies.
After looking around at some other compilers, I decided to stick with
djgpp.

Tip: If other beginners can't get simple code to work using rhide,
instead
of trying to understand all the stuff in the FAQ files, you should
perhaps
update to ver1.4.7b of rhide first...
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide-beta.html ..to see if that
fixes
your problems (thanks Damien and Mark).

Although I had many problems to start with (djgpp/rhide wouldn't accept
or
compile any of my code), I now seem to be able to execute the simple
programs that are illustrated in my tutorial. That's good enough for the
time being; at least I can actually get some sort of a learning curve
now.

:)) Happy