Installing G77

["JOHN CARROLL"<John dot Carroll at dcu dot ie>]

     I hope that you will not mind responding to a question regarding
     the installation of G77 as I am totally unsure of what I should
     be doing.
     
     I have downloaded two GZIP files, namely GCC.2.95.2 (12.5 Meg)
     of the full distributions and GCC.2.95.2 (1.3Meg) of the
     Fortran distribution.
     
     I would like to install G77 on a Windows 95 PC but am unfamiliar
     with C, C++, etc and write to ask for a layman's guide to the
     basic steps. I have read the "Installing GCC: Configuration"
     web-page but was unable to interpret the basic steps for my own
     situation here. I especially struggled with the options specification
     and would love to know what the most sraightforward MS-DOS/Windows
     parameters might be?
     
     For example, should I creat a directory GCC on my C: drive,
     placing C:\GCC in the path list of autoexec.bat, and then 
     extract all the files from the two archives elsewhere on disk
     and type `configure' from GCC? 
     
     I hope that you can help me. I am returning to research in Maths
     after a number of years and wish to start writing some Fortran
     programs as soon as I can.
     
     Looking forward to hearing from you,
     
     Regards,
     
     John Carroll
     School of Mathematical Sciences
     Dublin City University
     Dublin 9, Ireland
     < John.Carroll @ dcu.ie >