From: Endlisnis Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: 'Too Many Parameters?' Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 18:17:05 -0300 Organization: NBTel Internet Lines: 24 Message-ID: <35FD87D1.AFBD52AB@unb.ca> References: <35fc206c DOT 4336346 AT nntp DOT infoave DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: fctnts13c75.nbnet.nb.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Kyndig wrote: > I was avoiding posting this since it is such an extreme newby > question. Yet I can't find any heading in the past 1800 headings, nor > the FAQ or Readme.1st files pertaining to this problem. I've > downloaded the .zip files necessary. Unzipped them by use of 'pkunzip' > and placed them in c:\djgpp directory. I'm running Dos under Win 95 > and when I goto 'set path' or simply click on the 'autoexec.bat' I > get "Too many Parameters" How can I fix this? Thankyou for any > responses. Kyndig It would help if you gave an actual example of what you tried. But, I'll guess that you tried this: set path C:\djgpp\bin;%PATH% When you SHOULD have put: set PATH=C:\djgpp\bin;%PATH% Case does matter, and the '=' is required WITHOUT any spaces. -- (\/) Endlisnis (\/) s257m AT unb DOT ca Endlisnis AT GeoCities DOT com Endlis AT nbnet DOT nb DOT ca