From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Running DJGPP binaries on Ramdisk
Date: 29 Sep 2000 17:13:35 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
: Ah, that one. That's an old problem caused by your diskette boot, and
: the somewhat unusual contents of your extremely stripped-down boot
: diskette's autoexec.bat and config.sys.

: That 'OMPT' is the end of the environment variable 'PROMPT', and the
: actual problem is that no PATH variable is availabe, or its value
: illegal.

: IIRC, the fix was to set up a usable PATH in autoexec.bat, like:

: 	path a:\;d:\d4
: 	
: or something like that. Creating a COMSPEC line in config.sys may also
: help.

Is there a way to improve the error message? Or is this from the stub?


Right,

						MartinS