Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/13/06:07:45
First, please don't post in html.
Do you mean your autoexe As it should be you autoexec.bat
^^^ ^^^^^
Apart from that everything looks ok.
The percent marks are used so dos knows that path is a string
and not a directory called path.
Peter Allen
> Matthew J. Nicks wrote:
>
> I am sorry to bother you but I am having the same problem that
> Shervin did when they wrote the note one Mon. 28 Dec 1998.
> I changed the autoexe, rhide starts but doesn't compile. It says
> error in DJGPP installation and then undernieth that the enviroment
> variable is not defined. I am almost positive that the problem is
> in the AUTOEXE part because I did not understand exactly what
> everyone was talking about when it came to the two lines I was
> supposed to enter.
> set PATH=D:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH%
> set DJGPP=D:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
> (I used D: because that is the drive that all of this is on. The
> autoexe is on C: though.) I personally took it litterally and put
> in exactly letter for letter space for space the way it is displayed
> above. I am thinking that may not be the way it was meant to be
> taken. Are you supposed to put something in where it says "PATH"
> Are those percent marks around PATH supposed to be there in reality
> or were they there just to highlight the word. I put set before
> each capetalized line, but is that correct or just words people used
> to set into the actual input that is supposed to be used? Well I
> hope you can help. I would really like to be able to compile my
> first program. "Hello World" Thank you for any help you can give
> me and taking the time to read this letter.
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