Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:14:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: NELS COBBEY <nelscobbey AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Need help: gcc compilation error: "...cannot exec 'cpp': No such file or directory..."
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On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, NELS COBBEY wrote:

> (1) I am unable to compile a simple c program, using the gcc command.
[snip]
> DJGPP=C:\Nels\programming\DJGPP\DJGPP.env
                ^^^^^^^^^^^
This is explained in the DJGPP FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip from the same
place you downloaded DJGPP), section 8.1: you cannot use long file names
in the setting of the DJGPP environment variable, since DJGPP startup 
code processes that variable *before* it turns on its long file name
support.

You need to use the short 8+3 alias of that name, something like this:

  set DJGPP=C:\Nels\progra~1\DJGPP\DJGPP.env

(Use the DIR command to see the exact short name of the directory 
`programming'.)