From: jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject: Re: how djgpp code bootable?
Date: 20 Jul 2000 09:18:01 +0100
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In article <3975F185 DOT 3008DE25 AT dragonet DOT dhs DOT org>,
Dan McGregor  <dragon AT dragonet DOT dhs DOT org> wrote:
>Give him a break, replace "how" with "is" and I think you would see what
>he meant.

No:

"How do you run RHIDE?"
"How do you run gcc?"
"How do you compile an executable within gcc?"

I mean, does "djgpp code" mean "code written in RHIDE," "code compiled
with RHIDE/gcc", "code compiled with gcc" or RHIDE/gcc it/self/?  Does he
mean executable, or starting on booting up the computer, as in, put in
autoexec.bat?

The above are all with me guessing what he means by "bootable." And
guessing what he means by "djgpp code." Hence my second sentence. 

>> This sentence no verb. What do you mean? "How do I compile an executable"
>> or something more obscure?

I don't mind the syntax, really :) I knew what he meant in that way: I
just couldn't grok the semantics, or rather - there were lots of things he
could mean.

It wasn't meant to be nasty. "This sentence no verb" is one of my idioms
from the local university newsgroups which leaked out. I am very
context-insensitive.

This is probably all veering towards off-topic, so I'll put a "damn" in to
stop it going onto the mailing list.

J-P