From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Environment Variable for RHIDE
Date: 15 Jun 2001 09:59:13 GMT
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palm tree <palmtree AT chequemail DOT com> wrote:

> I need to set the environment variable for RHIDE to work with DJGPP.

I don't think so. What environment variable are you thinking about?
Last I looked, RHIDE required no special environment variable at all,
except for some no long-obsolete buggy versions of it.

> Please tell me how to do this, as I am not able to open the
> readme.1st file on my machine because clicking on it causes WinZip
> 8.0 to start which of course doesnt work because its not a zipped
> archive and there is no way around it. 

Of course there is --- you just have to get to know your Windows a bit
better. First, you have to understand why WinZip is trying to open
that file.  It's because *.1st is registered as a file type to be
handled by WinZip, for whatever crazy reason.  You now have two
choices on the Windows end of the problem:

1) Turn off that file type registration. Open an explorer window, then
   select menu entry View --> Folder options. Then select the tab of
   registered file types, find '1st' and delete ist.

2) Short-term solutions: Hold down the <Shift> key as you right-click on
   readme.1st. You'll have the 'Open with ...' entry in the context menu,
   now. Select it and choose "notepad" to view the file.

Or you could start getting used to the DOS commandline window you'll
be using for your DJGPP work, anyway. Open a DOS box, "cd" to the
directory with readme.1st in it, and type either

	more < readme.1st
or	edit readme.1st
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.