From: George Foot Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: why won't my .exe program run properly until I set env var? Date: 30 Jan 1998 15:04:40 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6asq68$5c4$5@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <19980129095701 DOT EAA26346 AT ladder02 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> <34D151D6 DOT 789D AT cs DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 23:06:46 -0500 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp John M. Aldrich wrote: : I seem to have proven your point. :-) But I would be interested to : find out how many people who read this list use more than two compilers : on the same computer on a frequent basis. I used to use DJGPP v1, Borland Turbo C/C++ v2 and Microsoft C v5 (*not* C++!). That was back in the days of DJGPP v1, when I found it pretty much essential to use batch files (mine were DJGO.BAT and DJSTOP.BAT) to set and unset the environment variables -- v1 required so many long variables I'd always be very short of environment space when I used it. -- george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk