Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:49:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Newbie question, newbie error
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> Maybe one should change the order. ALL djgpp compiled programs require
> a DPMI host (Someone already pointed out what that is), so maybe the 
> readme should say that first.

Not necessarily.  Many (most?) of the people nowadays use Windows as
their default environment, where DPMI is available already.

More to the point, I fail to understand how interchanging two adjacent
statements can change anything.  How do people know to stop exactly
*before* they read the part which mentions CWSDPMI?

> I think the problem here is to make clear that djgpp needs some help
> to run, and the operating system may or may not already support this, 
> without going too deep into details, that might scare off newbies. 

That is exactly the problem.  In my experience, it doesn't have easy
solutions.  If you are willing to assume that people read only a
single statement from each paragraph, I'm afraid it doesn't have any
solution at all.