Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/12/16:01:32
Another mistake you made was putting in the echo.
Echo's just tell DOS to write the rest of the line to the screen.
_REMOVE_ the echo before your SET= lines.
Neotronica wrote:
> I'm running win98. I finally got DJGPP working for a period of time....that's
> the good part....the bad part is after rebooting, my computer went haywire and
> could not find its win.com file along with the edit.exe dos file and a ton of
> *.vxd files. I had to reinstall most of the computer's software. Here is
> exactly what i did prior to this incident: Initially, I did the following
> after installing DJGPP to get it working:
>
> In an ms-dos window i entered:
> echo set PATH=C:\DJGPP\BIN >> c:\autoexec.bat
> echo set DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV >> c:\autoexec.bat
>
> in the djgpp.env file i entered the following:
> [rhide]
> RHIDE_TYPED_LIBS_DJGPP.cc=stdcxx
>
> LFN=y
>
> After doing the above, DJGPP was working fine and i was very happy, so i
> rebooted and was greeted with the friendly "Mostly-Shit-DOS" message: win.com
> cannot be found or something like that. so....I changed directories to the
> command folder, typed win and I was bombarded with *.vxd missing over and over;
> I could not even enter windows in safe-mode. Needless to say this is a bit
> annoying and I would REALLY like any help i can get from anyone here who thinks
> they can help! Also, I'm completely confused by the existence of multiple
> autoexec.bat files on one computer! Please Please Please Please help me......I
> really dont want my computer self-destructing again.
>
> Thanks,
> Neotronica
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