On Thu, September 1, 2011 14:37, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 01/09/2011, Tomas Hajny wrote: >> mind would be skipping the '$' sign at the beginning (as that is >> specific > > That is simply a "generic term/symbol" to indicate that what follows > should be typed in at a command prompt. We can't use bold or italics > or a different font, as is used in other types of rich documents, to > explain what parts of text means "type this in as is at a command > prompt".
Well, this is exactly something that may easily be seen as part of one's context/background. It is surely not something generic for most Windows-only programmers. You don't need to clarify the meaning to me but rather consider whether this understanding applies to all others (OK, mostor at least most). . . >> properly (e.g. either starting this command from the full fpcbuild >> export >> or having the source files pointed to by some environment variable). > > Read the rest of the README.DOCS file. It's all there! Correct, sorry, my fault. :-( Putting some kind of a forward reference to the General settings chapter before the make command wouldn't hurt, but that's indeed no excuse for not reading up to the end right away. Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
