Digital BW, The Print

The discs you burned from the iso's are pretty much the same as you would
have found in a boxed set. When you install redhat you have three or four
choices. Desktop, server something else I don't remember and custom. The
desktop setting is default and loads a graphical system without a lot of the
power tools. It is pretty much designed to provide an office type system
with word processing etc. but doesn't provide c, perl and a number of other
things that can be useful. The custom setting lets you load pretty much what
you want from the distribution disks and includes a segment called
development - that is what contains the c compiler and a number of other
things.

Roger

  Thanks, again, Roger!  It's making some sense.  I wonder why the
  compiler wasn't loaded when I installed Linux?  The RH9 CDs aren't
  from Redhat, I burned an ISO image from the net (linuxiso.org).
  Would that have anything to do with it?  In any case I'll try your
  suggestion tonight.

  I really appreciate your help.

  Tom




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