From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: c++ For Dummies Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <1027740913 DOT 3d4214f1a8231 AT email DOT vif DOT com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (NetBSD/1.5_BETA (alpha)) Message-ID: <1027769061.732280@queeg.ludd.luth.se> Cache-Post-Path: queeg.ludd.luth.se!unknown AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: 27 Jul 2002 11:24:21 GMT Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jul 2002 11:24:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: queeg.ludd.luth.se X-Trace: 1027769061 news.luth.se 439 130.240.16.109 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com efgendron AT vif DOT com wrote: : To Whom it may concern; Ihave tried to install your program from the cd that : came with your book C++ For Dummies. I'm not a computer hacker nor am I that : dumb when it comes to installing programs from a disk but your instructions : in chapter 1 and in tha accompanying readme files were somewhat convoluted and : how do you safely change or add to autoexec.bat? Where on the cd is gnu C++ : compiler? As you can tell, things did not go well. I hope you can help me, : otherwise I will consider this book as a bad investment and buy VB C++ : compiler. Note that problems with any installation program in books, does not concern us directly. It's the publisher's problem. You don't need any book to have DJGPP: . The book is probably describing an old version of C++ anyway (a lot of them are). If you post their hello world program here (should be early in the book), we should be able to tell. Right, MartinS