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- From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: WANT GCC? FORGET FAQ.GCC AND README?? READ THIS FIRST!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.030612.29804@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:06:12 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <186a86INNcsb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- >
- >unfortunately....I can't find make. And I haven't an editor. My vi
- >doesn't work yet.
-
- If you used the 0.96 or later root disk to install, you do have an
- editor. It's called joe. If you installed from the MCC interim
- version, you also have elvis, a vi clone.
-
- Also, with the MS-DOS filesystem available, you've made your
- instructions overly complicated.
-
- >BTW, if you don't like these instruction, screw you. It worked for me :)
- >
- >Hopefully this will motivate someone (in authority?) to make this
- >installation process a little easier.
-
- The best way to get better documentation and installation procedures
- is to WRITE THEM YOURSELF! Bitching at someone "in authority" will
- not help, and will likely just tick them off. Kind suggestions are
- always welcome, but complaining gets you nothing. The best way to get
- an improvement is to write it yourself and kick it back to the author
- - I'm sure that HJ Lu would like it for the GCC installation to be as
- painless as possible, but he doesn't have much time. I would love to
- have an 'update' script on the root disk, but there are simply other
- things I would much rather do (since I don't need a root disk update
- script myself - maybe a script to update the root disk from my hard
- drive. :)
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
-