From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Message-Id: <199606140019.AA090951562@relay1.geis.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 00:01:00 UTC 0000
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Subject: Re: Stupid Questions

Reply to message 8854660    from NCHUDNOF AT BINX on 06/13/96  3:44PM


>1. How do you stop the Control-C halting in your program?

Look up the setcbrk() function.  It enables/disables Control-C
checking by the program.  If you are having problems with
debugging, try reading section 12.7 in the FAQ for some guidelines.

>2. Can you compress those HUGE executables?

They aren't that big.  Many large programs compiled with DJGPP
can actually be smaller than the same programs compiled with
Borland.  There is, however, an executable packer called DJP
that you can obtain which does runtime compression/decompression
in a manner similar to PKLITE.  I think you can get it thru simtel.

>3. Is Allegro better then JLib for games?

Somebody else will have to answer this one.

>4. Is there a newer FAQ than 2.0?

There is a new FAQ in progress, which will be released when a
sufficient volume of new material is added.  For our reference,
though, what do you find inadequate about the current one?

>5. Where can I look for answers without feeling guilty for sending dumb
>crap like this?

I've seen dumber questions asked here.  :)  Seriously, though, if you
read the mailing list/newsgroup long enough, you're sure to see most of
the basic stuff covered.  There are quite a number of themes that seem to
float around in cycles every week or so, right Eli? ;)

John