Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/08/07/07:07:50
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Comments?
I have a few comments:
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> GETTING STARTED WITH DJGPPP
> (What you should download)
> - ----------------------------
This section doesn't mention Info. People who use editors without
built-in Info reader (it turns out there's a surprisingly large number
of such DJGPP users) will have hard time without being able to read
the docs.
> If you intend to work in DOS, or run progams created with DGJPPP from DOS
> you'll need the following archive in addition to the ones mentioned
> above:
This should at least explain that ``from DOS'' means ``as opposed to
Windows'', since DJGPP is primarily a DOS-based package.
> In general, download the binary distributions only;
Add a note how should one know which zip are binary.
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> Compiling C/C++ programs using DJGPP
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>
> Most of the on-line documentation is organized in a special hypertext
> format used by the GNU project. Each package brings its docs which
> are files with .iNN extension and are unzipped into the info/
> subdirectory of your main DJGPP installation directory. To browse
> these docs, get and unzip the file txi390b.zip, then run info.exe. If
> you don't know how to use Info, press `?'.
This paragraph doesn't belong to ``Compiling'', it should be in a
separate section (``The Docs''?).
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> Debugging C/C++ programs created with DJGPP
> - -------------------------------------------
Why was Debugging moved before the IDE section? In my book, you edit
and compile the program *before*, not after you debug it. Besides, a
surprising number of people don't use a debugger at all, so there's no
need to mention it that early in the file.
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