Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:21:09 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Deadman cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: help! In-Reply-To: <7a6e5t$nhp$1@news.wave.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Deadman wrote: > everytime i go to build all from rhide it says cannot run unless in ms-dos > mode, then asks me if i want to make a shortcut. but even the short cut > gives the same error message. What am i doing wrong? any help appreciated This usually happens because somebody (you?) set the DOS box properties to require the MS-DOS mode. There should be no reason for this setting. Open the properties' sheets of the DOS box, find this option (under the Program tab, press the Advanced button), uncheck it, and the problem should go away.