Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/05/01/10:46:24
> > Wishing to make this a permanent selection, I added the line
> > GO32=driver %DJGPP%/drivers/atipro.grd topline
> > to my djgpp.env file and cleared the variable from the environment.
> > Rerunning t05.bat, I saw the topline messages during the build but
> > once again the "Graphics initialization error ..." message appeared
> > when I t05 ran.
> No wonder this doesn't work. The parsing of DJGPP.ENV and stuffing
> of necessary variables into the environment passed to DJGPP programs is
> done by go32, and the GO32 variable is for go32 itself. So go32 doesn't
> get variables which aren't in the environment when it starts up.
Thank you clarifying how the djgpp.env file is manipulated.
For whatever reason, I felt that this file provided yet another
way of passing options/parameters to a program at run time,
analogous to the "@" command line feature.
Thanks to all who responded.
Mike
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