Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 07:26:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Alistair McMillan <kenmcmill AT cqm DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem setting up DJGPP V2
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On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Alistair McMillan wrote:

> PATH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;D:\PROGRA~2\DJGPPV2\BIN
> DJGPP=D:/Programming/DjgppV2/djgpp.env

You can't point the DJGPP environment variable to a pathname that 
includes long filenames.  It's a chicken-and-egg problem: DJGPP cannot 
know that it is required to support long filenames before it reads 
DJGPP.ENV, and it cannot find it if it doesn't use long filenames 
support.  I think that if you change the second line above to this:

	set DJGPP=D:/PROGRA~2/DJGPPV2/DJGPP.ENV

everything will work OK.

More generally, until you have a working environment, avoid using 
anything that's not a standard DOS.  One such is long filenames (it still 
has some bugs); another is 4DOS that you are apparently using.  When in 
doubt, always check if the same bug happens without these non-standard 
features.