Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/28/17:56:29
Ok, thnaks for your help. A couple of questions though....
How do I delete the previous version or do I simply 'overwrite' the
older one?
Sorry, if this seems a silly question, but, I am...GASP..a newbie.
Thanks, Kirk
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:38:38 GMT, "Andrew Jones"
<luminous-is AT home DOT com> wrote:
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>"Nokneedto know" <dooh AT fiol DOT brock DOT dk> wrote in message
>news:38BA2368 DOT F6CA6100 AT fiol DOT brock DOT dk...
>> Hi all,
>> Please excuse me if this question has been asked a milllion times, but
>> I'm new to this NG. Anyway, I installed the complier(v2) that came Steve
>> Hellers book "Who's afraid of C++?" and when I use the mk command I get
>> many 'bad file or command....' messages and then it says its ok and
>> works fine. Any ideas? Also he recommends makeing a program from a
>> notepad form and saving it as a cc file but when I try this it resets to
>> a txt file.
>> Any help would be nice, thanks in advance Kirk
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>Do you have the first edition of the book? (Blue cover). If you do, the
>distribution of DJGPP with that book is completely screwed! I am not sure
>about the 2nd edition, but it's probably screwed too. No book that includes
>DJGPP on CD-ROM (that I know of) has managed to get it right yet. Not even the
>first Dr. Dobb's Journal "Alternative Programming Languages" CD managed to get
>it right. Just spend a few hours downloading the full compiler package
>(www.delorie.com), since it will be more up to date than any CD-ROM
>distribution.
>
>AndrewJ
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