From: "John Harrison" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: installation and configuration questions Lines: 30 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:17:05 -0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.104.53.242 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT ntlworld DOT com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 974881059 213.104.53.242 (Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:17:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:17:39 GMT Organization: ntlworld News Service To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, I've just installed DJGPP and the bash shell (from binaries) and I have some questions. 1) I've set up a RAM Disk (using MS ramdrive.sys) but I can't get bash to access it, ls e:/, ls e:\\ and ls e: all produce a 'no such file or directory' message. How can I do this? 2) I've set my put set TMPDIR=E:/ in my autoexec.bat but I'm not convinced that DJGPP is using this, how can I test this? E: is my ram drive (obviously) and I can access it quite happily from a DOS box. One thing I've noticed that may be related to the above two question is that when I type echo $TMPDIR in the bash shell, it just prints E: not E:/. 3) How should I configure my machine to get the most out of DJGPP. I've read the FAQ but I'm honestly none the wiser. I'm interested in having as much memory as possible available to my DJGPP programs when they run. I have the following specs, Window 98 SE, 128Mb RAM. 4) Finally one unrelated question. What should I do if I want my program to allocate real memory only, not virtual memory. Just a pointer to the right documentation would be great. Thanks in advance, john