Message-ID: <01BE712B.CE571AE0.gdpowell@unity.ncsu.edu> From: Gary Powell To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: Autoexec solutions for win9* Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:40:53 -0500 Organization: NCSU X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello all (Newbies especially), I keep seeing a lot of questions regarding the autoexec.bat modifications and problems with windows, whether it be environment space or other issues. I have a suggestion. Under windows 9*, create a new shortcut on the desktop and call it command (MSDOS Prompt). You can name this thing "DJGPP compiler" or anything you want. Now, create a batch file that includes the modifications that the compiler requires (set path ... and set env etc). Also make adjustments to the working directory to c:\DJGPP or whatever is appropriate. If you are having problems with compiling, then the only changes that are required are modifying this batch file (I call mine c.bat and keep it in c:\DJGPP\BIN). This allows for your usual every dos program setups to be used in Autoexec.bat (set Blaster commands etc, I use c:\windows\command\doskey.com as well) without the extended attributes required for your compiler. This procedure works particularly well if you happen to have more than one DOS compiler that each require their own environment variables set. I have MS FORTRAN and MASM setup with a different MSDOS Prompt/ batch file combo as an example. Hope this helps, Gary