From: "Ed Fear" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Help a newbie Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:20:15 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Message-ID: <7ffocf$gs1$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-225.name57.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: news8.svr.pol.co.uk 924542159 17281 62.136.188.225 (19 Apr 1999 17:15:59 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Apr 1999 17:15:59 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 13 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I'm a DJGPP newbie, and when I run gcc.exe it just 'hangs'. I have 64mb ram on my computer and if i try rebooting to a DOS prompt it says something about not having any DPMI. Could someone help me, and explain it in laymans terms? Pleeeeeeeeease?# Cheers, Ed :)