Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/07/06:51:02
Hi all;
I'm working strictly in DOS 6.22 I have win311 on my computer and
some widows drivers install at bootup, but I'm not using the windows
dos box
If I use rhide to write a program from scratch and compile and get an
error message;
#1 I cannot get the cursor back into the editing window (I've tried
all the menu options and function keys.)
#2 I saved and exited. Returning to rhide and pulling up my file,
all that's there is a blank page. It's either not saving or deleting
saved files.
I don't type strictly hunt peck and backspace and after writing two
pages in rhide, pressing F2 at the end of every sentence and then
having the file vanish, I was a bit torked. I like the color scheme
for expected expressions etc, but not the file loss for a syntax
error.
Can anyone give me a clue?
Do you think emacs might work better? I installed it but haven't been
able to gain access to it. I only installed the emacs files once,
with no error messages.
One more question. Would someone look at C:\djgpp\bin\ and tell me
if there is supposed to be a file g++.exe at that location. I got an
error message from pkunzip -d that it could't create that file.
Thinking my copy of the gccp archive was bad I downloaded a new one.
It was larger than the first one by 10k or so. I got no error message
that time, but no g++.exe file in the bin directory either.
Oh also, I had to install most files at least three times to get it
working to start with.
It may be my system (Packard Bell 486sx50 24megs ram, 408m hdd
Phoenix A86 1.01E bios, Cirrus Logic 5424 video with new ver 1.5
drivers.) is just not compatible or at least that's what I'm
beginning to think. I can, however work the small c compiler from the
dos command line, if I build with dos editor or Bingo(A shareware
editor) I'm just getting started with c so don't know if C++ works
from the dos prompt or not.
For now don't email as our server is down, a not unusal condition. I
do have a web account at netscape though
rexcoffee AT netscape DOT com
Thanks much
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