Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:07:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	'Cannot open'
Message-ID:	<Pine.NEB.3.95.960926145834.22355D-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
MIME-Version:	1.0

When trying to run a DJGPP v2 program from a clean system booted from floppy
I have received the following error:

'SPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM: cannot open'

The part before colon was random. This happened on MS-DOS 6.22, MS-DOS 3.30,
IBM PC-DOS 3.31 and WIn95/DOS 7. The floppy contained, in addition to the
application, the following files: go32-v2.exe, cwsdpmi.exe (r3). The
application was stored both in stubbed and un-stubbed forms. Bot running
'app.exe' alone and 'go32-v2.exe app' resulted in the same behavior.  
Thinking that it might be a problem of lack of XMS MM I have installed both
himem.sys and emm386.exe adn booted anew. The problem was still there.
Interesting thing is that it also happened when the system was booted clean
from harddisk (DOS 7) and dissappeared when PATH contained djgpp/bin
reference.
What's more needed to run the application in addition to CWSDPMI.EXE?????

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