Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:21:40 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Misled Y cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Can't find crt0.o??? Read on.. In-Reply-To: <19980202023501.VAA15405@ladder02.news.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On 2 Feb 1998, Misled Y wrote: > When using Win95 (as I am) you can spawn a DOS window or you can > actually get out of windows and go to real DOS, like you could with > 3.x. This is inaccurate. The ``go to real DOS'' option in Windows 9X is NOT what it is in Windows 3.X. It is a special mode whereby Windows leaves a small stub loaded in memory, which is used to restart Windows when you return to Windows. > Well, I guess win95 and real DOS each have an autoexec.bat > file. So I went into real DOS and edited the autoexec.bat with the > edit command and entered in the lines that are in sec. 8.1 of the > FAQ. This did not work. This has nothing to do with DJGPP, it's just basics of Windows 95. You've got to have some elementary knowledge of the platform you are using. Windows maintains several different copies of AUTOEXEC.BAT: one for the main bootstrap, and one each for every DOS application that uses the DOS Mode feature. The other AUTOEXEC files are called AUTOEXEC.000, AUTOEXEC.001 etc., and are renamed to AUTOEXEC.BAT when you switch to the DOS Mode or launch an application whose property sheets say it needs to be run in DOS Mode. The correct way to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT is not to go to DOS mode at all, but open a DOS box under Windows, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT, then reboot. Personally, I do not recommend to use the DOS Mode at all, certainly not to run DJGPP or edit files. If you think you need to get to plain DOS, press F8 at boot time and choose the "Command Prompt" option.