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From: clover AT exo DOT com (Jerry A Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RE: Problem with RHIDE (help on help)
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 06:59:15 GMT
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(from dejanews:)
>I have downloaded RHIDE beta5 recently. It's great.
>However, I met a problem.

>I run rhide under dos with cwsdpmi using the commend

>c:>rhide

>After it starts up, I press F1, and the system returns to the dos 
>prompt without any error message.
>Also, some of the letters which were on the screen are disappeared. 
>For example,

I've been having the same problem with F1, but not with disappearing 
letters.  One of the followups to this thread (back in June) said
to make sure RHIDE.INF and INFVIEW.INF were in the INFO directory;
mine are there.  The standalone INFO reads them fine.  The first 
several times I'd run RHIDE everything worked fine; there had been
no changes to anything that I know of when the problem appeared. 
It was after I exited the context-sensitive help from the Linker
Options dialogue one time; F1 ceased to do anything, so I quit.
  
Now when I run RHIDE one of two things happens.  F1 will either
kick me out to DOS, or it will work once and then upon exiting 
help the F1 key will cease to function.  It will do the work once
thing from the opening screen before (but not after) hitting OK,
and also from dialogue boxes under the options menu (but not from
just the pulldown menu).  I haven't checked every single possibility,
but the usual response is an immediate out to DOS.

I tried re-installing the RHIDE zipfile, overwriting all the old 
files, but the problem persisted.  I then tried a clean boot (left
shift) into DOS (6.00) and ran RHIDE again.  F1 then gave me an
error box saying it couldn't find the file it needed.  Manually
setting the DJGPP variable (SET DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV in my 
case) after another clean boot, then running RHIDE returned me to
its normal (not working) state.

I'm stumped.  Could my DJGPP.ENV be corrupted somehow?  The date/time
stamps on it haven't changed.  Anyone have an idea as to
what I should try?
    
Thanks in advance for any help.