From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is DJGPP really suitable for beginners?
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 18:53:08 -0600
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Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> 
> Actually Eli, Wouldn't it be better if some kind of a small Setup
> program written specifically for DJGPP which could be downloaded
> seperately in addition to the normal Zips was written and
> recommended by the zip-picker.
> 
> The setup program when run could check the downloaded zips and
> comment on any missing zips (bnu281b.zip comes into mind), ask
> for the installation directory, check for any LFN problems, unzip the
> files to the directory using a builting unzip routine and check and
> warn for the RHIDE -lstdcx bug and various other things.
> 
> IMHO this will solve quite a lot of problems due to missing zips,
> badly behaved unzip programs, LFN,and a wole lot of errors. And it
> will be quite helpful to the newbies as well.

You mean, it is not enough for Eli to have compiled FAQ.html, and now he
has to write a FAQ.EXE?

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Weiqi Gao
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