From:	silkwodj AT apci DOT com (David Silkworth)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro demo compilation
Date:	11 Aug 2002 18:56:17 -0700
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I have been a casual DJGPP user for 4 or 5 years now.  I really
appreciate all the work contributed.  I have occasionally tried to do
my part to help in the past.

I am confused.  Just today I determined to install a new DJGPP/Allegro
environment on a fresh Win98se installation at home.  Since I'm not a
newbie, I went right to town with the zippicker downloads.  Unzipped
the lot (DJGPP binaries - no sources) in C:\DJGPP edited autoexec.bat
rebooted and proceeded right to the Allegro compile.  I got to the
"va_list" error termination and searched here to find the discussion.

To my amazement, the discussion is actually quite fresh!

I had to do a file search to find readme.DJGPP (I really couldn't find
it by browsing even though I knew what I was now looking for.)

So - - -

What do we do with the cryptic message at the end of this hidden
readme file??

I would have thought this would have been mentioned in the
Installation Instruction page that zippicker reveals.  I can't find
any reference to this in Eli's FAQ either.  (BTW Eli is a champ!)

I also recall that I had no success on a Win2K installation a couple
of months ago.  That was a disappointment, because that is my laptop,
and since this is a hobby, well, it would be nice.  I see the
reference to a fixup page in readme.DJGPP at

http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm 

I am going to give this a try.

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