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From: "Maan M. Hamze" <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help with DJGPP MSDOS Settings
Date: 1 Aug 1996 18:28:31 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in article
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960801191636 DOT 5751K-100000 AT is>...
> 
> On 1 Aug 1996, Maan M. Hamze wrote:
> 
> > When DJGPP is installed in E:\DJGPP, was simply not working on my
system.
> > So instead, I put, in autoexec.bat, the line
> > e:\djgpp\bin\setdjgpp.bat e:\djgpp e:/djgpp
> > which configures the setting each time at startup.  Having done that
> > everything is working fine and smoothly with the original djgpp.env.  I
do
> > not know if that is the way I was supposed to do it from the start.
> 
> Both calling `setdjgpp' and setting DJGPP=E:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV should have 
> worked.  You can use the solution you've found, if you're reluctant to 
> investigate while the other didn't work.

Believe me I know that it should have worked, but it looks like the 
setdjgpp e:\djgpp e:/djgpp
is sort of 'forcing' the setting on the system at each startup.  
With only: SET DJGPP=E:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV or 
SET DJGPP=E:/DJGPP/DJGPP.ENV
in autoexec.bat, RHIDE is crashing the system and gcc and gxx do not work
after reporting that they can not find: dpmiload.exe, although I have
cwsdpmi in the path.
However, at only one occasion RHIDE started to compile a source code before
it crashed.  So, apparently it was able to 'read' the info in the env file.
 From my guess, the culprit is not the env file, but something to do with
the inability to properly use cwsdpmi unless the setting is forced by using
setdjgpp.  Because it looks like there is a correlation between 'forcing'
this environment setting and for the apps to 'properly' use cwsdpmi.
Anyway, as I mentioned before, everything is working smoothly since I
started using setdjgpp.  I'll investigate this matter further and try to
isolate the culprit that is leading to these crashes and report back in
case anyone is running into this same kind of problem.
Meanwhile, setdjgpp is working fine.  So be it!  i am quite glad with it :)


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Maan M. Hamze
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