From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP and WindowsXP
Date:	Sat, 01 Mar 2003 15:32:42 +1100
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>> Does anybody knows how to make DJGPP run succesfully in a Windows XP Home
>> DOS shell, for a non "system administrator" account? 
>
>This consists of two largely separate issues:
>
>1) DOS support on XP is subtly broken in many "interesting" ways, for which
>2) Setting up DJGPP as non-admin on an NT-style box means you have to 
>   avoid any changes to the master environment.  That still leaves two
>   choices:
Now to re-itterate item 1) make sure you are using exe's dated after
1-Dec-2001 or they will not be compatible with XP.  In simple terms
make sure you are using the latest files.

If you are using the latest files could you please post :-
a) the output from the set for "set path" and the "set djgpp"
environemnt variables
b) What are the exact messages shown when trying to build the hello
world program using the instructions in the readme.1st from
DJDEV203.zip (from 2002!!!)


Andrew

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