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From: sterten AT aol DOT com (Sterten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: 10 May 2004 07:32:06 GMT
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and Windows XP
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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 >> 1. I have other drive-letters, when I boot Win-XP  and so, all my paths
 >>    in batch files are wrong
 >
 >Sorry, I don't understand this problem.  Could you give an example
 >and some more details?

I'm rather new to XP, my old computer with Win98 crashed and can no longer
boot from that HD, but I got the HD into my new XP-computer as slave.
When I boot DOS from disk, I can use djgpp in c:\e\djgpp.
When I boot XP and use a dos-box, I get it in e:\e\djgpp,
then:


E:\E\DJGPP>set djgpp=e:\e\djgpp\djgpp.env                                      

                                                                          
      
E:\E\DJGPP>set
path=e:\e\djgpp\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\Sys
tem32\Wbem;                                        
                                                                          
      
but this doesn't work since 

E:\E\DJGPP>path                                                                

PATH=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;

so the new path isn't added.




 >> 2.  I can't get  doskey and other utilities in Win-Xp
 >
 >That's strange: on the nearest XP box here I have doskey loaded into
 >the DOS box by default.


when I use cmd.exe I have cursor-key functionality, but this mode is
very incompatible.
So I click on my old "gwbasic.exe" and then "shell" which gives me
a dos-box, but doskey (and some others) don't work.
I also tried "command.com" from the desktop, no luck.
So I boot dos from disk for djgpp and boot XP from HD for internet etc.


 >
 >> 3.  there are many incompatibilities with all sort of programs in Win-Xp

I meant not necessarily djgpp programs - I couldn't yet compile
any under XP - 

 >Get the recompiled binaries from Andrew Cottrell site (there's a link
 >from DJ's server), and you should be fine.

don't know, what these are, sounds complicated...
google search took me to a page saying
his files were no longer available due to copyright problems


 >
 >If you still have problems, please report them, they might be new
 >bugs.