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From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Subject: Re: Strange error
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 20:28:52 GMT
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Adrian VanWormer (adrianvw AT tau-ceti DOT isc-br DOT com) wrote:
: This is a weird one...  I've installed dgjpp on my Olivetti 386DX25, 
: and set up the environment variables and the path.  However, when I try 
: to use any program that uses go32, such as cc1, it complains it needs a 
: newer version of go32.  BUT, if I specify "\c\bin\go32.exe <progname>" 
: explicitly, it works (sorta).  This problem has persisted through two 
: completely different distributions of djgpp, from different CD's.  
: Anyone have a clue what might be going on?

Sounds like you have another (older) go32 somewhere on the path.
Recent versions of GO32 display a version number when run with no
args.  Sufficiently old versions hang.