Message-Id: <36EA4601.E77E12E3@cableol.co.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:03:29 +0000 From: Allens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Installation troubles References: <000701be6d1c$95f92e80$4c2abed8 AT rivercity-wa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com First, please don't post in html. Do you mean your autoexe As it should be you autoexec.bat ^^^ ^^^^^ Apart from that everything looks ok. The percent marks are used so dos knows that path is a string and not a directory called path. Peter Allen > Matthew J. Nicks wrote: > > I am sorry to bother you but I am having the same problem that > Shervin did when they wrote the note one Mon. 28 Dec 1998. > I changed the autoexe, rhide starts but doesn't compile. It says > error in DJGPP installation and then undernieth that the enviroment > variable is not defined. I am almost positive that the problem is > in the AUTOEXE part because I did not understand exactly what > everyone was talking about when it came to the two lines I was > supposed to enter. > set PATH=D:\DJGPP\BIN;%PATH% > set DJGPP=D:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV > (I used D: because that is the drive that all of this is on. The > autoexe is on C: though.) I personally took it litterally and put > in exactly letter for letter space for space the way it is displayed > above. I am thinking that may not be the way it was meant to be > taken. Are you supposed to put something in where it says "PATH" > Are those percent marks around PATH supposed to be there in reality > or were they there just to highlight the word. I put set before > each capetalized line, but is that correct or just words people used > to set into the actual input that is supposed to be used? Well I > hope you can help. I would really like to be able to compile my > first program. "Hello World" Thank you for any help you can give > me and taking the time to read this letter.