From: kifox AT hotmail DOT com (kifox)
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Subject: Re: why won't my .exe program run properly until I set env var?
Date: 29 Jan 1998 14:22:03 GMT
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In article <slrn6d0feb DOT lt6 DOT davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, 
davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk says...
>
>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, ...).

Also, it's a way of getting around the "out of enviroment space" error msg 
without actually increasing the size of it, since you're only creating the 
varibles that you're actually using at the time. It also avoids having to 
edit the autoexec.bat if you want to make changes in your DJGPP setup.