From:	David Allsopp <daa AT tqSPAMbase DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Newbie question: program does nothing under bash
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:20:23 +0000
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I've just got DJGPP, and so, of course, I started removing the rust from
my C skills (and checking the installation) by writing the classic
"hello world" program.

Fine, compiled first time even :-).  However, it only runs under an MS-
DOS command.com window (W95).

I have the GNU Unix utilities (grep, sed, awk, etc.), and generally work
in a "bash" window.  If I try to run the program from bash, nothing
happens.  I made the simple change of opening a file and writing a
string out to that, in case there are stdout/stderr problems, but the
program just seems to do nothing: no file is created.  Again, if I run
this from command.com, the file is created OK.

So, is this a limitation?  Am I doing something wrong?  Do I need to
compile in a particular way?

This isn't a major problem (yet), but it's worrying that my first and
very simple program does something odd...

All help appreciated.
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