Date:	Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:15:00 -0500 (EST)
From:	Dan <afn03257 AT afn DOT org>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Setting up DJGPP?
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

:>On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 afn03257 AT afn DOT org wrote:
:>
:>> >No, no, *no*, NO!!!  Please don't do that!  Please don't edit DJGPP.ENV
:>> >and specifically DON'T change the line which defines DJDIR!  This will
:>> >cause grave problems in some cases.  Both the file DJGPP.ENV and the
:>> >DJGPP FAQ list explicitly warn you to NOT change that line.
:>> 
:>>  Well, my system would not work until I did. That's why I stated if it 
:>>  needs it. I didn't want to use C:\DJGPP, however certain things
:>>  seems to refuse to work when that wasn't the base path,
:>
:>Something is clearly wrong with your installation if you needed to do 

Nothing wrong.

:>that.  Editing DJGPP.ENV's ``greek'' was identified as a frequent culprit 
:>for problems in many installation, so I definitely don't recommend that.  

I think I may know what causes that, if you add a semi-colon adn then
a constant path instead of removing the %:\>DJGPP% [greek] it will
cause problems, however replacing it with the absolute path worked fine for
me.

:>If you want to investigate why didn't your installation work without 
:>editing DJGPP.ENV, I'd be glad to help you.

No investigation needed, I placed the DJGPP distribution using the base path
of C:\PROG, but put DJGPP.ENV in C:\. I have  system I use to keep my
computer running good, it keeps me from having excess files, etc.
Part of it is having all system related files , batch, etc.. in C:\.
It works fine as is, as it should. In fact, if your not supposed to do that,
then why does it explain how in the DJGPP.ENV file?

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