Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/11/03/23:08:28
N J Chackowsky (nick AT arcticmail DOT com) wrote:
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: Here's one possibility:
: I found that on at least one installation, the tmpdir variable had been
: incorrectly set thus:
: set tmpdir=c:\djgpp
It'd be better if it was set to subdirectory instead of the main DJGPP
directory. It'd be easier to clean up if necessary.
: (Which LOOKS right, but there's an embedded space (char(32)) after
: djgpp. The environment was then trying to store temporary files in
: c:\djgpp \RHAAAAAA
: ^ with an embedded blank here.
: Correcting the autoexec.bat solved the problem on this station.
: I'll check other stations that give me that error message for the same
: problem.
: BTW:
: set djgpp=c:/djgpp/djgpp.env <-- forward slashes
: set tmpdir=c:\djgpp <-- backward slashes
: I'm a bit confused. Should I ALWAYS use forward slashes for djgpp
: programs?
1. The variables should be in upper case.
2. The DJGPP variable can handle both variants. Perhaps other
programs (non-DJGPP ones) use TMPDIR, so for safety I use "\" for
that one.
Oldfield, Turbular Bells III,
MartinS
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