From: hgeleff AT spidernet DOT com DOT cy ("Henrik Geleff")
Subject: Re: square one
7 Sep 1997 17:01:49 -0700
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Hi Ted.

 I took a pot shot at what you might hacve done and it must be something
like removing C:\WINDOWS from your PATH environment variable.

I suppose that that instead of adding to your path you have replaced it,
i.e.
the readme file says

>> Add C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;C:\gnuwin32\b18\tcl\bin' to your
$PATH <<

 I belive that you, probably as you say because you are starting from
scratch and know nothing, have typed:

PATH C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;C:\gnuwin32\b18\tcl\bin

or

SET PATH=C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;C:\gnuwin32\b18\tcl\bin

both resetting the path to the new value, to add is typed as

PATH C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;C:\gnuwin32\b18\tcl\bin;%PATH%

or

SET PATH=C:\gnuwin32\b18\H-i386-cygwin32\bin;C:\gnuwin32\b18\tcl\bin;%PATH%

In the sincerely hope that this helps you
Regards

Henrik Geleff




-----Original Message-----
From: Ted & Terry Erlwein <erlwein AT alaska DOT net>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: 05 September 1997 01:14
Subject: square one



>I recently got a book about learning C++ which had your compiler in it.
>I was then instructed to download B-18. After doing that and running
>cdk.exe, I modified my autoexec.bat file and then attempted to restart
>Win95. After a little while, I get a message that it cannot find win.com
>and can't continue loading Windows.
>
>Your readme and FAQ sheets aren't much help for people like me who are
>trying to start from scratch and know nothing.
>
>Is there something fundamentally basic that I am doing wrong?
>
>Thank you, Ted Erlwein
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