From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question, newbie error
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 14:59:19 +0100
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Myknees wrote:
[...]
 
> He is talking about DOS things.  If you type...
> SET DJGPP=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env
> ...from the DOS command line (the DOS prompt) then the DOS environment is
> changed.  You create an environment variable "DJGPP" which has the value
> "c:/djgpp/djgpp.env".  That value is the location of your djgpp.env file.  That
> information is used by RHIDE and other djgpp programs, like gcc.
> 
> I think that Tom was giving you a way to see if the problem is in fact the lack
> of the environment variable.  To set the DJGPP environment variable
> "permanently," you will need to do the things discussed in the readme.1st file.

Well, maybe I have been a bit too harsh... Sorry. 
What I do not want is solving other peoples problems, 
but show them ways _how_ they can solve their problems.
About every freeware/GNU package comes with files called
README.1ST, INSTALL ore variations thereof. I just wasted
some hours for installing an upgrade of our backup package 
because I didn't read those files. (Done that before, that much
can't have changed. It can.) Instead of giving a complete answer
I do believe it is more helpful in the long run to explain how to 
avoid those problems. Believe me, it'll keep your blood pressure 
down, your computer undented, your knowledge of four letter words
at a minimum.


> > Again I
> > realize that this may have been in the readme, ( and
> > since you say it is I
> > believe you), but most of the readme and docs are a
> > foreign language to me.
> 
> Well, tell us which part is difficult.

Don't believe it, read it ;-)
The foreign language is a problem for most of us, the mix
of native and non-native speakers may cause some confusion.
Luckily, I miss out most of the differences between british and
american english.

> 
> > If you could help me intergrate these commands with the
> > IDE, I ill be
> > silent, hopefully forever. :)
> 
> How morbid!

Yeop.

[...]
-- 
Ciao
Tom

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