From: Hannes Birnbacher Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making. (fwd) Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:34:11 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 34 Message-ID: <87pnfm$6l7$2@news05.btx.dtag.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news05.btx.dtag.de 950034742 6823 340097353547-0001 000208 18:32:22 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT t-online DOT de X-Sender: 340097353547-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Am Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:20:29 +0600 (LKT) schrieb Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel : >I was thinking of a user with a dial up connection who is wondering about >getting djgpp up and running with as least download of bytes as possible. >So what I was suggesting was not "get make, but don't get Fileutils", but >something like "if you want to make a choice, it may be more important to >get make than fileutils". But as you later said this also depends on the >kind of user. >I agree on this matter. However I was thinking about a newbie who would be >a bit bewildered at what he has to download from the huge amount of zips >available. In this respect the Zip-picker does a very good job in >recommending the files IMHO. Yep, that is how I was feeling when I detected the zip finder, and I am not exactly a newbie either;-). Had MS-C 5.1 a lot of years ago and sold it, when I found out that I was not experienced enough to earn money with C programming. Did a little bit of experimenting in Turbo-C and then put aside everything for a decade. As I have Linux on the machine, too, but not actually using it, I decided to go a little bit into AWK, C and so on, but wanted to have it under DOS, because that's what is running all day long at my computer. Was very happy to find out about DJGPP, and the zip finder was a big help. My problem was just to find out what I needed for a minimal system, plus RHIDE. Got it up and running anyway, but I suppose I would have been the typical user who might profit from a Setup Utillity. -- "Gibt es eine bessere Dokumentation als den Quelltext?" Walter Haslbeck über Linux in de.comp.os.unix.discussion