Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:26:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 Sterten AT aol DOT com wrote:

>  >That's quite a steep learning curve, if you ask me.
> 
> if that is already a steep learning curve , then I wonder how many
> hours a newby is supposed to invest before he can use DJGPP !?!

It depends what do they do with DJGPP.  Using low-level functions that 
access absolute addresses of video memory is not everyone's idea of using 
a compiler ;-)

> here is my final version, it compiles to about 90KBytes.

Try stripping it, it will be much smaller.

> sometimes, but not always , I also need for compiling :
> #include<farptr.h>

You need to include it always.