From: FrancZabkar AT biggpond DOT com (Franc Zabkar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Unzipping problem??
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 12:02:11 GMT
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On 2 Jun 1998 17:21:19 GMT, Mark Alan Teagarden put finger to keyboard
and composed:

>I'm trying to install DJGPP on a 486-33 running Dos 6.0 at work.  I told 
>the zip picker my requirements and it chose the appropriate files.
>The problem was in unzipping gpp281b.zip.  I keep getting an error 
>message saying "can't create g++.exe".  I have thought about renaming the 
>file, zipping it, then unzipping and renaming it, but eventually I'm 
>going to need to rename it back to g++.exe, and the rename command will 
>not accept ++ as part of a valid filename, it comes back with "too many 
>parameters"
>
>Is there any way to get around this problem?  I cannot compile any C++ 
>programs because RHIDE always gives me a 'bad command or file name' when 
>I try to compile; obviously it cannot find g++.exe.

Would it be possible to use DISKEDIT (Norton Utils) or DEBUG to search
your software for all instances of the string "g++" and to change it
to some legal DOS filename?

-- Franc Zabkar

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