From: nigelhoult AT enterprise DOT net (Nigel Hoult)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: New user: help with dual installation of gcc (djgpp and Windows 32 version)
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 22:16:38 GMT
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weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao) wrote:


>This is going to matter only if you use Windows 95:
>
>Aside from noting that the DJGPP.ENV setting for these variables pulls
>in what's already defined in the ambient, let me also mention a
>wonderful little utility on the Windows 95 CD called "winset.exe".
>This command resets environmental variables in the current DOS box AS
>WELL AS in the master Windows 95 environment (so that the next DOS box
>you pull up will have the changed environmental variables.)
>
>Create two batch files djgppvar.bat and othergcc.bat that defines the
>appropriate environment variables with winset.exe, bring them to the
>desktop (maybe making them run minimized).  Double click on the
>djgppvar.bat icon, open your djgpp DOS box; then double click the
>othergcc.bat icon, and open your other GCC DOS box.  And you have two
>DOS boxes with two different sets of environments!
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>--
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao AT crl DOT com
>

Thanks - I'll give that a try. (I've also been given another
suggestion which I'm trying out.)