From: Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why won't my .exe program run properly until I set env var?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 08:29:00 GMT
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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:35:15 -0500, John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:

> > 1. Start up a DOS window from windows95
> > 2. Run the batch file (which has
> > set djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env
> > set path=c:\djgpp\bin;%path%)
> > 3. Start programming
> 
> This is silly.  If you plan to do a lot of programming in DJGPP, you
> should set the environment variables in your autoexec.bat so they always
> exist.  I can't think of any possible reason why this wouldn't work
> better.

While, on the whole, I'd agree with you (DJGPP is my DOS C compiler of
choice) there are times when you don't want to do it. For example, if you
have more than one GNU development environment (DJGPP, GCC-Win32,
GCC-Win32-prc, ...).

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