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To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Unable to use make
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:16 -0700
Message-ID: <19980511035425.AAR4598@ppp107.cartsys.com>
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At 10:38  5/9/1998 +0100, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
>Mike Simon writes:
>>I'm sorry to trouble you but, I can't get make to
>>campile anything! Allegro, "Hello world" in c++,
>>anything. I have 8 meg ram, 486dx, 132 MB Hard drive,
>>Am running Win95, and Go32 -v says I have 5MB Ram and
>>4Mb of the other type, so that should be enough,
>
>No, nothing like enough. Sixteen meg is a bare minimum for any serious
>compilations, but the more the better.
>
>You need to edit the DPMI properties for your DOS box to make more
>virtual memory available (you will have to type 65535 into the field by
>hand, because win95 only goes up to 16384 in the pulldown list). See the
>djgpp FAQ for more information about how best to configure your machine
>for use with djgpp.

Note that this will also involve having that much free disk space. It may be
time for a bigger hard disk, and ideally more memory as well. :(

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com