From: "Lee Goldblatt" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: newbie help me pleez... here's the error message si get: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:45:58 -0400 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <7ot5iq$rnu$1@autumn.news.rcn.net> X-Trace: gluEhupNh08SCoxuU3yxFneb4CEdotYOsmRhAsIIUtI= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rcn DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 1999 00:47:22 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com here's a chunk of my dos console, I added the two required lines in my autoexec.bat file, below that I tried to compile and create (i assume) p1.exe . C:\>path PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND C:\>gcc p1.c -o p1.exe gcc.exe: p1.c: No such file or directory (ENOENT) gcc.exe: No input files ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------- I used a win95 text editor w/the source code: and I pasted this text file into my c:\djgpp folder /* thus is my 1st c program */ #include main() { printf ("hello world\n"); return 0; } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- I don't know squat but I'm trying, can anyone make some suggestions to help me compile?