Message-ID: <32800BAD.FFC@cs.com> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 19:53:17 -0800 From: "John M. Aldrich" Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com Organization: Three pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP Workers Mailing List Subject: Re: error: OMPT=: References: <199611050208 DOT VAA29380 AT itchy DOT mindspring DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The following conversation took place because of a user's question on the newsgroup. My question: doesn't the new 2.01 distribution include the new stub that Charles posted? I think I know what this guy's problem is (running with old programs), but I want to make sure. Thanks! Derek Owens wrote: > > Thanks for your help earlier regarding the OMPT=: error. > > You wrote: > >there are three ways to fix it: > > > >1) Set a PATH variable; any PATH variable. This is also necessary so > >that DJGPP can find all its files; see the comment below. > > > >2) Create CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files for your DOS boot. They > >don't have to contain anything; simply having them there is enough (but > >see the comment below). > > > >3) Install the latest version of DJGPP, v2.01. The quirk in the loader > >code that caused this DOS bug to manifest has been corrected, so your > >programs should work properly no matter what. > > I'm working on a graphics program to display electric fields. > I was able to run the program after setting a path statement as you > said. However, I also downloaded the 2.01 binaries and recompiled > the program and it still gave the same error. Any ideas? This program > will be distributed so I need it to work under as many situations as > possible. > > Thanks, > Derek Owens -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------