From: "David W. Peters" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: very new user needs help Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 15:04:03 -0600 Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3661B6C0.870EFB84@my-dejanews.com> References: <73s5i3$839$1 AT newsreader3 DOT core DOT theplanet DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: tidal.wavetech.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------9A58685EF54D03EA28C5FEC8" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com --------------9A58685EF54D03EA28C5FEC8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May I presume that you are working in Windows 9x? Firstly, you will want to be certain that your PATH is established in autoexec.bat properly. set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.env set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH% In order to access autoexec.bat in MS-DOS, simply enter C:\>edit autoexec.bat. After confirming this, we will presume you are back in the usual Windows 9x desktop mode. You can go to your "START" button and click on your MS-DOS prompt under "Programs". You will probably see the C:\WINDOWS> prompt. I prefer to enter cd .. at this point. This changes the directory to the simple C:> arrangement. (cd=change directory). Next, simply enter rhide. This will load the RHIDE program (assuming you have downloaded it.) You can do the usual "Hello World" program at this point. (Go to "File" and "Open" to create a new program. It is convenient to save them in the DJGPP directory.) Hope this helps . . . dp --------------9A58685EF54D03EA28C5FEC8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit May I presume that you are working in Windows 9x?

Firstly, you will want to be certain that your PATH is established in autoexec.bat properly.

        set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.env
        set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%

In order to access autoexec.bat in MS-DOS, simply enter C:\>edit autoexec.bat.

After confirming this, we will presume you are back in the usual Windows 9x desktop mode.  You can go to your "START" button and click on your MS-DOS prompt under "Programs".  You will probably see the C:\WINDOWS> prompt.  I prefer to enter cd .. at this point.  This changes the directory to the simple C:> arrangement.  (cd=change directory).  Next, simply enter rhide.  This will load the RHIDE program (assuming you have downloaded it.)  You can do the usual "Hello World" program at this point.  (Go to "File" and "Open" to create a new program.  It is convenient to save them in the DJGPP directory.)  Hope this helps . . .

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