Sender: vedeesh AT ii DOT uib DOT no Message-Id: <32C6695D.41C6@ii.uib.no> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:51:41 +0100 From: Vedeesh Sahajpal Mime-Version: 1.0 To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: help: cannot exec go32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote, > > On Thu, 26 Dec 1996 vedeesh AT ii DOT uib DOT no wrote: > > > c:/djgpp/bin\as.exe -o c:\dos\ccdaaaaa c:\dos\cccaaaaa > > Cannot exec go32 > > This clearly indicates that your as.exe is an old v1.x program. You > didn't install bnu27b.zip, so the old version of as.exe is called. The > list of files you've downloaded includes bnu27b.zip, but you probably > didn't unzip it. > > The list of downloaded packages further indicates that you mix packages > from DJGPP v2.0 (gcc272b) with v2.01 (bnu27b). Please don't do that, ... You are exactly right. I did mix the versions. Reason for this was that I followed the guidelines related with 'which files to download' as mentioned in the chapter 4 of faq202. Though, this chapter has a warning suggesting that versions mentioned below may not be latest, I thought that latest versions I could download later. For the time being , I was more interested in installing djgpp and didn't mind installing a bit old version of it. The versios I downloaded from a ftp site previously(not simtel), had bnu272b etc. and this tallied well with the versions mentioned in faq. In other words, versions mentioned in faq give 'cannot exec go32' problem. If chapter 4 of faq is really the source of this type of error than I think it can be corrected and chances of such errors can be minimised. The lesson I have learned is 'always go for latest':) -- Vedeesh Sahajpal