From: Richard Dawe <rich AT tudor21 DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP Setup Utility in the making.
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 22:01:28 +0000
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Hello.

Hannes Birnbacher wrote:
> I did not understand the need for reboot in the first place .Why
> not run autoexec.bat after the addition of the necessary path and
> environment variable. It worked perfectly with my system.

Surely that depends entirely on what autoexec.bat does! What if you have a
line to run a program that you only want to run at start-up? I don't think
that this is an assumption you can make safely. What you could do is
create a batch-file to set up the environment for DJGPP and then add a
line to autoexec.bat to call this batch file, e.g.

call c:\djgpp\djgpp.bat

and then in djgpp.bat:

SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\djgpp
SET DJGPP=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env

change paths as appropriate.

IIRC the Cygnus tools do this too (cygwin32) and create a shortcut in the
Start Menu to open a Command Prompt (DOS box) with the environment set up
appropriately.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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