From: strags11 AT yahoo DOT com (Nick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Simple (?) problem with djgpp/gcc/make
Date: 3 Jun 2003 18:06:29 -0700
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Thanks, but still no luck.  I renamed autoexec.bat to something else
entirely, but the problem remains.  (This isn't that big a surprise,
really, because the path defined in autoexec.bat isn't the one that
shows up in the command prompt anyway.  I don't think XP even looks at
autoexec.bat.)


Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message news:<bbhte5$n1e$1 AT nets3 DOT rz DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>...
> Nick <strags11 AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > ...but, the PATH declaration in my autoexec.bat is yet another string:
> 
> There's your problem. You're on an NT-based platform --- you shouldn't
> usually even *have* an autoexec.bat to begin with.  Move it out of the
> way and observe the difference.
> 
> Your having upgraded to XP from some other Windows version may lie at
> the root of this.