From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Attention: Josh Date: 22 Dec 1997 10:53:03 GMT Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Lines: 23 Message-ID: <67lgqf$agd@freenet-news.carleton.ca> References: <01IRBEZHRZ0IBL3J24 AT SLU DOT EDU> Reply-To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet5.carleton.ca To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk (GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU) writes: > I just had a message from "Josh" which I lost due to power failure. > It was about changing a line in my autoexec.bat file. Duh...boot up, reconnect, enter the newsgroup (I presume you already did this much to post the above!), and look backwards until you find messages with a date around the day of the power failure. If you're reading the mailing list and your copy got erased in the failure, go here via newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp and do the above. Meanwhile, he was probably telling you you ought to add this: SET DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV changing C:\DJGPP to the full absolute path for the directory where you installed the stuff. -- .*. Friendship, companionship, love, and having fun are the reasons for -() < life. All else; sex, money, fame, etc.; are just to get/express these. `*' Send any and all mail with attachments to the hotmail address please. Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca pgd73 AT hotmail DOT com