From: "Roger Beeman" <topos AT erols DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gcc reported bad command
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 02:14:15 -0500
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Do you mean to tell me I've got to install the app for which the entire
program is named?
I suppose it occured to you that the answer to your puzzlement might be
you're dealing with an idiot.  Anyway, I'm up and running and have already
got the area of a circle.  As Miss Litella oft concluded, "Never mind."
But seriously, thankyou both.

Andrew Davidson <andrew AT lemure DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
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>Roger Beeman <topos AT erols DOT com> wrote in message
>news:001501be70ed$bd862dc0$078a7ad1 AT hlb DOT cable DOT rcn DOT com...
>>Eli--
>>Thanks for the quick response.  I ran your suggested language, the path
>>slightly modified, thusly,
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>> G:\DJGPP\bin>redir -o gcc.log -eo gcc -v hello.c -o hello.exe
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>> The generated  file 'gcc.log'  reads
>>"Bad command or file name" and that's it.
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>>Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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>Have you tried 'dir gcc.exe'? It sounds like you're missing it although I
>haven't a clue how that could have happened... if that's the case you'll
>have to simply reinstall...
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