Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 15:55:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: V2.0 suggestion
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>Reductio ad absurdum: There are lots of small but useful utilities
>that could be added to DJGPP to head off FAQs.  For example, GNU Emacs
>comes immediately to mind so that we won't have to deal with "what's a
>good programmer's editor?"
In terms of archive size, JED might be a bit more reasonable...what might
be better would be to include a prominent document listing places where
one can find various useful utilities.  As long as it was kept fairly
up-to-date it wouldn't be a problem.  BTW, why is the FAQ updated so
infrequently?  Things might work rather better if it were periodically
updated and posted (and of course uploaded).

>In any case, all FAQs will remain FAQs until somebody invents
>documentation that leaps off the disk and grabs the newbie luser by
>the throat and doesn't let go until the luser passes a multiple choice
>exam with 80% comprehension or better.  How many times do we see
>"subscribe" messages to the list?
Perhaps (almost) all executables could be encrypted and the luser would
have to read the docs and take a test to get the key---anybody intelligent
enough to get the key without taking the test wouldn't need to take it.

>directory; REDIRECT; ndmake (Tony's personal preference); QEdit (a
>public domain, fairly small, programmer's editor), and of course the
 ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
Are you sure about this?  I thought it was shareware...$45 or something.
>my server.  It might even be possible to put such on SimTel (a la the
>various and sundry Linux distributions).
What's next?  A DJGPP CD? ;-)

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