From: jaddle AT po-box DOT mcgill DOT ca (Jonathan Addleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: helping newcomers
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 02:22:00 GMT
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:56:41 GMT, chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D
Chambers) wrote:
>It sounds like you're fresh into the world of DJGPP, so perhaps you could
>help - what areas are confusing?  This is a highly debatable topic, and
>it seems no-one can really answer specifically.

I've just started too, and the most confusing things were the
tutorials designed with other compilers in mind. Not knowing any C or
assembler, and trying to pick up the basics is difficult when
"everybody else" uses a different format for assembler and several
other things.. (farpointers caused me some trouble at first... I still
don't know what they are, but I made a putpixel!) :)

I had a friend who was more familiar with Borland C and programming in
general to help, but I had to figure out a lot on my own. Maybe I just
looked in the wrong places...