From: lorenz711 AT aol DOT com (Lorenz711) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: The Basics Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder03.news.aol.com X-Admin: news AT aol DOT com Date: 8 Nov 1998 21:43:32 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Message-ID: <19981108164332.16962.00001116@ng33.aol.com> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Sorry you guys if this might sound too basic, but here it is i've got the djgpp files on my harddrive and am trying to install them I've Unzipped all the neccessary files, copied them in a djgpp directory and set the paths in the autoexec file as instructed but every time i try to use gcc or gxx keyword at the prompt I always get: "bad command or file name" like it was never installed, it's doing my head in the djgpp directory contains 11 files djdev201 faq211b readme.1st bnu281b gcc281b gdb416b gpp281b lgp281b mak3761d txi390b all zip files and environ.1st (it's 221 bytes) (this is all that's in it at the moment) and the autoexec file looks like this d:\SCANPM.EXE C:\ @IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\BC45\BIN;C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\WINDWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV PATH=C:\BC45BIN;%PATH% thanx, for any time put into this