From: "Stephen Harris" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Help Installing Lines: 57 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <%X%h7.61983$gj1.5712240@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:39:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.81.85.234 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 998804347 12.81.85.234 (Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:39:07 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:39:07 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "William M. Collins" wrote in message news:togfi1bhk8rl84 AT corp DOT supernews DOT com... > I recently purchase the c++ for Dummies book with the > 4th edition disk. > Following instructions created c:\djgpp. Tried to use copy > the copy function did not work. (I right clicked on the > 'author' icon showing the drop down menu with copy > and clicked it. The drop down menu disappeared.) > Using windows98. > I am a neophite but not a dummie. > Why no setup exe? > How do I get c++ installed ? > > tia > bc1 > > -- Perhaps you mean with that book. But in case you mean you want the right files and are not attached to that book: > I need DJGPP C/C++ compilers for Windows-98. > Where can I download them from ? > > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp contains a lot of information, > however I would like to get any tip. See http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/zip-picker.html There are a series of questions about what you would like to accomplish. Then it builds a list of files to download. You stick em all in one directory, the zipfiles and their(djgpp) unzip.exe file. You download install.exe. 2Click on install.exe and it unpacks a few files including *lbinstdj.exe* which puts everything in the correct directory. Read the readme.txt because there are maybe three questions you need to answer (it will modify your auotexec.bat for you and set the registry) during the install. This was very painless. And Rhide, which is the IDE, produced a working version of Hello world! Presto There is a C++ book by Bruce Eckel for free vol 1 & 2, which is available for download. Al Stevens is a respected C++ author found at a library. Perhaps you will be lucky and somone will respond who has this book and made it work but the method I offer is a certainty. There were about a dozen files involved ranging from 1/2mb to 2 mb, 12.5 mb total. -- Resolution and Discovery, Stephen