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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> This is an old version of the FAQ.  The latest one, v2/faq230b.zip,
> has a different section 22.1, reproduced at the end of this mesage.
> I suggest to upgrade to the latest FAQ, the previous version is very
> old.
> 
> > I measure the user friendlyness of an interface or program by
> > the degree to which you don't have to read the manual or FAQ.
> 
> There's limit to which you can learn a complex and powerful program
> without reading the docs.
> 

Those that can use DJGPP (or NASM) first up come from other C
or ASM platforms which they have learnt to use at University
or from books. Beginners cannot use a product or a manual
without tutorials.

In my case I had no information on writing 32 bit based dpmi code.
The reason my FAQ may be old is I downloaded the zips some time
ago but didn't know how to write C in a dpmi environment.
That changed a week ago when I found these tutorials :-)

An commented example is worth a thousand technical explanations.

Of course being self taught there are gaps in my knowledge base
and I am not sure what questions are valid on this newsgroup?

-- John Casey.