Message-ID: <003801c2b0ac$a140fed0$0100a8c0@p4>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
References: <10212290541 DOT AA21924 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Subject: Re: XP command.com problem
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:11:09 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> > I have screwed up my XP box somehow and now I cannot set some
environment
> > variables needed to build DJGPP. I have tried a number of changes and I
seem
> > to have made it worse.
> >
> > Until I get the XP command prompt working again I will not be able to
> > contribute very much. The cmd prompt also has some problems. I
re-installed
> > SP1 and it made no improvemtns I could see. I have tried to search
google
> > and I only found out how to change the enviroment space in three
different
> > places instead of the one I used previously.
>
> Check the task list for NTVDM.EXE - kill them all.
>
> Try a minimal setup - just set DJGPP and PATH, nothing else (no
> prompt, nothing else) and see if it sticks.  Try it under
> CMD.  (I use CMD.EXE exclusively).
>
> Check your CONFIG.NT for things which might cause flakey stuff.
Charles,
Thanks for this, but it looks like I really got XP in a knot as these
suggestions didn't help. I tried the ansi.nt and autoexec.bat (ansi.sys so
that ls and grep work in colour/color)from my C800 XP box and they still
didn't work.

I have now created a XP SP1 slipstream install CD last night and have booted
of it tonight and have done a repair XP and now have to sort out some errors
when I start command.com.

If I do find out how to fix it without reinstalling XP on from scratch I
will let people know otherwise any other suggestions or stupid things to
try. In 12 hours time I will start reinstalling XP.

Andrew