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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:14:44 -0300
From: salvador <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE crashes without traceback. [solved!]
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Endlisnis wrote:

> salvador wrote:
>
> > >     OK, I've discovered that it doesn't actually "crash", it just get's hung for ~2
> > > minutes when trying to do something with DJDIR.  Running it in gdb doesn't change
> > > anything.  Using exe2coff/go32-v2 doesn't change anything.  If I wait 2 minutes, it loads
> > > and runs normally.  During the 2 minute wait, it does not respond to ^C/^Break.
> > > (Remember, it still loads normally under DOS)
> >
> > Check your TEMP, TMPDIR and TMP definitions! (including the definition found in djgpp.env)
> > most probably one of them is pointing to an invalid drive (or non-existant directory). RHIDE
> > and CVS will wait for a long time before giving up (is libc). I added a lot of checks in the
> > editor code to avoid such a problem.
> > RHIDE uses DJDIR as part of the TMP guess so it could be the reason.
> > SET
>
>     OK, I figured out what was causing the problem.  It was the HOME environmental variable.
> For some reason, when RHIDE loads with the HOME environmental variable set to the root directory
> of any drive, it waits 120 seconds before loading, but only if DJDIR is set.  I had my DJGPP
> installed in a subst'ed drive, and my HOME was set to "P:\", but when i changed it to the real
> location "E:\DJGPP\", rhide loads fine.
>     Thanx for your assistance.

That's because RHIDE blindly adds a / and gets: "P:\/" so Windows thinks that's a network path.

SET

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