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Berserk wrote: What has this thread turned into, i originally started it to learn how to use djgpp, but now, what the??

OK, DJGPP help. For starters, the place to look for help is, astonishingly enough, the /docs directory. You did download the extra documentation, didn't you? If not, go back and pick them up.

Another good place to get information is the DJGPP documentation page, specifically the User's Guide, the Knowledge Base, and theFAQ. Who would have imagined that...

Perhaps a Google search would help too. Searching on DJGPP documentation and DJGPP Tutorial brings up pages of links, and a little work going through them quickly finds at least a half dozen useful pages, such as this page full of graphics tutorials.

Seriously, you really do need to work on your fact-finding skills, Berserk. The starting points were obvious, and the results easy to reach. It does neither you nor us any good if keep demanding information that can be found faster and easier on your own.

You also have to learn to ask questions more effectively. If you have a specific question, some of us will be happy to answer them, but by now you should have realized that a blanket cry for help isn't going to get very far. Anyone reading your posts has to know what kind of help you need before answering you; otherwise, the best you can expect to get is a hazy answer, or none at all. This is not rudeness; we simply don't know what it is you want to know, so there is no way we can answer you.

By the bye, did you ever read the "Asking Questions" HOWTO? You really need to take ESR's lessons to heart, as they will help you considerably in the future. True ESR is not exactly a paradigm to hold up (indeed, he's said to be rather a jackass in person), but he does give some excellent advice.

For thse others who are reading this, the same goes when answering a question. It is one thing to be brusque or harsh; it is another entirely to be deliberately rude. It can be a difficult line to walk, but worth the effort.

The members of this board want to help you, and each other; it is what this forum exists for. But as Aesop said, the gods help those who help themselves. We of less than divine nature cannot be expected to do more. Several of the people here started out later and less knowledgable than you, yet they have made far more progress. They did this not by flailing around, asking the same questions 23 times over and whining when they didn't get the answer they wanted, but by putting effort into trying to learning the facts, and understanding the answers they found. You really ought to try it some time.

If you don't, you can expect to get a lot of response in the form, "RTFM. STFW. FOAD." That is, if anyone bothers to reply at all. You really don't want things to come to that, do you fnord?