From: phyphor AT SCREW!_YOU_SPAMMERBOY!usa.net (LMB) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OK people, I NEED help! Organization: YEA, DREAM ON! Inc. Reply-To: phyphor AT DOT DOT usa DOT net (nospam) (GET-SCREWED-SPAMMERS) Message-ID: <35affae3.10411589@news.inreach.com> References: <6ojoj3$4bg AT netaxs DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 50 Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 01:16:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.142.3.159 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 18:16:48 PDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:26:51 -0400, "Anakin" wrote: >Wow. This is REALLY weird. I know this is DJGPP, but since it involves >changing the environment settings, I think you can help. > >I just messed up my autoexec.bat file because I took out those %PATH% >things. It then said it couldn't load windows!! What do they do, the %PATH% >things? Anyway, this is what gets me: In my SET PATH=... stuff, >I have the path for DJGPP, my printer, and a DJGPP toolkit thing. What I >DON"T have is WINDOWS in my set path!! It still runs fine though. I've >noticed that everybody has windows in there SET PATH but me! I don't even >think that the default SET PATH had windows in there. What I DO have is >this: Um, yea... you were supposed to tack c:\djgpp onto the END of your path....without deleting anything... > >PATH=C:\IBM...... since, of course, I have a IBM computer (Aptiva). Is >that the same as a >SET PATH=C:\windows... ? > >Since I don't have it, SHOULD I set windows somewhere in my SET PATH? It >still works fine without it. > >Also (I know I should have this in a DOS only newsgroup, but DJGPP involves >DOS, plus I like this group) >when I bought my computer, in my config.sys, the BUFFER was set like so: >BUFFER=20 or something >a long that line (it WAS set at 20). NOW it is set at 50. Note that I DO >have lock ups after I open and close about three large progs at a time (or >close my internet connection quickly) . Somebody told me that because it was >at 50, that is what made it lock up. Is that true? ( I have 32 megabytes of >RAM, in care you're wondering) Don't sweat this, this is just small memory buffers (512 each, so 512 * 50 is 25,600 bytes... (A megabyte is (roughly) one MILLION bytes, so the buffers statement ISN'T your problem.... Are you sure your memory chip(s) are working properly? > >Thanks for listening to my ramblings, >Anakin >************************ > >"Good God!! LIVE man!!!" >