Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:28:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Mridul Muralidharan <ec97027 AT matrix DOT reccal DOT ernet DOT in>
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Subject: Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of RHIDE
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mridul Muralidharan wrote:

> now that u mentioned , i've version 1.4 (Sep 30 1997) , pretty old i
> guess. will upgrade soon :-)
> recently i noticed another bug (with the same version mentioned above ) -
> in win nt 4.0 , i'm not able to get mouse support for rhide .
> and sometimes , when i accidently move the mouse , the editor crashes.
> this doesn't seem to affect any of the  allegro programs !

This is a known issue with old versions of RHIDE, see section 3.3 of the 
DJGPP FAQ list.

> also , in the case of gcc , make , etc - if the tmpdir is not set to some
> directory that i have rights to write to , they crash without even giving
> a hint of what the error is ! ( just say Abort ! followed by register
> values ).

There's no way for a DJGPP program on DOS/Windows to know that a 
directory cannot be written to.  An application code can try to write 
there and see if that works, but library functions cannot do such things.

Simply make sure your TMPDIR variable is set correctly.  This problem is 
also mentioned in the FAQ, in several places.