From: wfg1001 AT mrao DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (William Grainger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: A newbie asks: What's going wrong?!?!?
Date: 19 Jan 1999 10:51:57 GMT
Organization: Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge
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Hi all,
   I've downloaded DJGPP files[1] from the 'file picker', unzipped them
all at work, and burnt them onto a CD, preserving the directory structure.
My intention was to use this CD in my 'ickle 'pooter[2] at home, which
hasn't got the hard-drive space for all this unzipped. But, whenever I try
to run go32_v2.exe I get an exception (after running cwsdpmi), and 

gcc hiworld.c  (when run in a directory on the harddrive) 

also raises an exception?

Exceptions are also raised when running in a DOS box of Win95.

My questions are...

1) What's the problem?

2) Why's it done like this?

3) How can I stop it going wrong and make it work?


[1] I got 
alleg30.zip   djdev201.zip  gdb416b.zip   grx23fnt.zip  pdc22.zip
bccgrx20.zip  faq211b.zip   gdb416d.zip   lgp2811b.zip  rhide14b.zip
bnu281b.zip   gcc280d.zip   gpp281b.zip   mak3761d.zip  rsxdj131.zip
bnu281d.zip   gcc281b.zip   grx23.zip     mak377b.zip   csdpmi4b.zip

[2] It's all I can afford: a 486 running at 100MHz, with 8Mb of RAM, a
300Mb harddisk, a 85Mb harddisk and a 2xCD ROM. Also got a 386 33MHz
without a CD ROM, and 160Mb of harddisk storage. It's like being in a time
warp!

Many thanks 

Will