From: av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
Date: 17 Mar 1997 02:47:16 GMT
Organization: The Rio Grande Free-Net, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
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Dan Hirschberg (dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU) wrote:
> I am running Windows NT 4.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 with 64Mb RAM and with
> a 2G disk.  I installed the various djgpp binaries (obtained from
> simtel.net) by dowloading the zip files into c:\djgpp and unzipping them.
> Among them: txi390b.zip, gro110b.zip, bnu27b.zip, fil313b.zip, shl112b.zip
> I set TMPDIR=c:\tmp
> I notice the following problems (among others):

> 1. When I run go32-v2.exe, it tells me that I have
>    DPMI memory available: 27435 Kb
>    DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb

>    That 0 looks suspicious.  There is likely a serious problem here.

> 2. When I run info (from a DOS shell), it seems to work fine.
>    When I type:       info gcc         it seems to work fine.
>    But when I type:   info groff
>        I get an error message:  Bad command or file name.

When INFO is unable to find a specified menu item as an actual menu item, 
it assumes a man page is being referred to. "Bad command or file name" is 
displayed because man.{exe,com,bat} can't be found.

<snip the rest-- sorry, can't help you with it>

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