Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:59:13 +0300 (IDT)
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ed Fear wrote:

> I'm a DJGPP newbie, and when I run gcc.exe it just 'hangs'.

Does it hang in Windows 9X?  If so, please describe your hardware.
Are you, by any chance, using a Thinkpad?

> I have 64mb ram
> on my computer and if i try rebooting to a DOS prompt it says something
> about not having any DPMI.

To run DJGPP in plain DOS, you need to download and unzip csdpmi4b.zip
which is available in the v2misc directory from the same place you get
DJGPP (it's all explained in the file readme.1st, btw).