From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Installation Problem?
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:24:58 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> > How about this as a general solution:  We have a program setup.exe which
> > is installed to c:\djgpp from djdev*.zip.
> > 
> > The install instructions go like this:

[snip long winded instructions]

> Isn't this unnecessarily complicated?  

The instructions? Yes probably.  The act of running setup to create a
batch file? I'd say that was less error prone than typing in the path
manually - well that's the idea anyway.

>  We already have setdjgpp.bat in
> djdevNNN.zip, so there shouldn't be any need to create it.  The user
> needs to open the DOS box's Properties, and enter this in the "Cmd
> line" property:
> 
>       command.com /e:2000 /k c:\djgpp\bin\setdjgpp c:\djgpp

Or even:

    command.com /e:2000 /k c:\djgpp\bin\setdjgpp c:\djgpp c:/djgpp

> Experience shows that those who use the zip-picker (a large portion of
> new users, judging by the messages here) do read the instructions
> presented by the zip-picker.

Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.  But it does seem that at
least a few users neglect to read the docs, or misread them, make simple
typos, or whatever.  Resulting in improperly set PATH or DJGPP.