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Subject: Re: DDJGPP+ RHIDE: 3 question
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:44:31 +1200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Paul Wilkins <disk AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote:
>>Yes well, a google search for Install DJGPP Windows XP gave me a page called
>>     How to install DJGPP
>>     http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/pinzon/csmdsi/html/instgpp.html
> 
> And since when is the 'i feel lucky' link off google.com the
> definitive reference guide for a product?  You may have found some
> instructions, but they're not "the instructions" to be called that
> without any qualification.  

It should be said that I have never relied on the 'I feel lucky" button.

If you do a similar google search for
     install rhide "windows xp"
which doesn't seem to be too bad a search query, I specifically chose to 
visit the above mentioned website because out of the top 10 sites that 
were listed, the first one appeared to be the most authoritive website 
that could answer my query.

So before you attack my methods, you had better make sure that you have 
a better one up your sleeve or you will just end up looking rather foolish.

Better yet though, if there is a different website that details how to 
install RHIDE to cope with Windows XP and its vagaries, then please, it 
would be useful to know where it is.

>>     "The original system, RHIDE was written for, is DJGPP. Because of
>>      many requests and the increasing popularity I made RHIDE also
>>      available for GNU/Linux."
>> 
>>The "made RHIDE also available for GNU/Linux" is a big clue that its 
>>primary development was for the Microsoft based OS's.
> 
> Oh, so the world is now cleanly divided into GNU/Linux and MS Windows,
> with no other options, is it?  Well -- it's not.  It clearly says
> there that the system is "DJGPP".  Which is not Windows, nor does it
> want to be.  

Woah, slow down there Tex. You'll note that I specifically didn't 
mention Windows and instead stated "Microsoft based OS's" because I was 
pretty sure that RHIDE was first developed to work on DOS and was then 
afterwards ported to Linux.

But this is getting away from my query.

Basically I'm after a way for someone using Windows to be able to run 
some code in RHIDE regardless of whether the directories involved have 
spaces in them or not.

Is this just too much to ask?

-- 
Paul Wilkins