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Re: GCC -> MSDOS for Dummies?

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From: David L Evens
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 01:01
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Lucien Kress (tamarack@teleport.com) wrote:
: OK.

: Can anyone, using very easy words, tell me how to get GCC (or DJGPP) running 
: on my DOS (486) machine?  Several attempts have failed.  This is what happens:

: I FTP to a SimTel mirror & follow the instructions in the README.1ST file.  I 
: download the "modules you'll want to start with" as listed there, and pkunzip 
: them with the -d and -o switches, as required.  Now I have lots of files in 
: lots of directories, but none of the batch files work -- they generated errors 
: to the effect of "unknown file type" or something like that, and sometimes 
: "file not found".  

: Well, I have many more sources of confusions, but I'll stop here for now.  Any 
: help would be appreciated.  Alternatively, if someone felt like taking the 
: time to zip up their working gcc and gpp executables and send them to me, I 
: would be even more grateful.

: Lucien

Did you remember to follow the instructions in the read.me file and set 
up your autoexec.bat with the correct settings for 
path/files/buffers/command?

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From: devens@uoguelph.ca (David L Evens)
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Subject: Re: GCC -> MSDOS for Dummies?
Date: 18 Nov 1994 01:01:40 GMT
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