Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 10:36:41 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: mmcgrego AT uoguelph DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Installation problem
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> I recently installed djgpp v1.11m5 on a new machine I have purchased
> and I seem to have a bit of a problem, when I run the tryit batch
> file in /samples/hello it reports an "unknown file type 0x692
> (064443)" error when it calls gcc to compile the hello program.

I believe this is the result of mixing routines from different djgpp
releases.  Perhaps you have an old GO32 one the path?  Try typing GO32 with
no args and see what version it claims to be.  (If it crashes with no args,
it is definitely an old version.)

Note that 0x6923 is the first two characters of #include with the bytes
reversed.  I believe that the internal workings of argument passing got
changed, and the file you are attempting to compile is somehow being
interpreted as a command file.