Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 14:18:43 +0200 (IST)
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> >DJGPP ... is certainly meant to be a first compiler of choice
> >for newbies.  My impression is that many newbies actually do use
> >it as their first compiler, in particular because the support they
> >get in this forum is regarded as very good.
> 
> How can we expect some of them to know that
>   gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello.exe
> is something meant to be typed into the command.com shell or, for
> that matter, to have even _heard_ of command.com?

We can expect that because we write down the instructions which say so in 
README.1ST, the FAQ, and in numerous other places.