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From: Ben Crain <bcrain AT bellatlantic DOT net>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE startup error
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:48:42 GMT
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pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> On 28 Mar 2001, at 14:58, Ben Crain wrote:
>
> > I have just downloaded zip files recommended on the delorie.com web
> > page, unzipped them etc.  I try rhide.exe, and get the error message:
> > "RHIDE has detected that the environment variable DJDIR has not been set
> > (or not correct)....Read the File README.1st from the DJGPP
> > distribution."
> > Little problem:  I can find nothing in README.1st about any DJDIR
> > environment variable.  It contains info for setting the environment
> > variable DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV, which I have done, along with the
> > PATH variable, following the Installation Instructions for winNT on the
> > DJGPP Zip File Picker Results web page.  (I use Win2000).  go32-v2
> > executes from a dos prompt in any directory, as does compilation of a
> > c++ program.
> >
> > So what's with this DJDIR, and why won't RHIDE work?
> >
>
> Try
>
>         redir -eo rhide -da >output.txt
>
> simply quit RHIDE after  it starts. After that You can browse output.txt
> and look for lines like GetVariable(DJGPP,1) and GetVariable(DJDIR,1)
>
> Andris

ok, then what?  The PATH and DJGPP variables are correctly set, as best I can
tell, and djgpp properly compiles my programs.  Why does RHIDE tell me they
aren't, and what should I do about it? Just browsing through this file doesn't
fix anything!