From: broeker AT acp3bf DOT knirsch DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: oh silly me
Date: 26 Nov 1999 14:59:16 +0100
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Leon (Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au) wrote:
> have win95 - but am starting it in MS-DOS mode.

You've made life a bit extra-complicated for you and your DJGPP
installation, that way. You installed DJGPP from inside Win95, so it
has long filenames, I guess, but you didn't follow the FAQ advice
(item 22.18) about how to deal with the special case that you want the
same DJGPP installation to be usable both from raw DOS (with *short*
filenames only) and W95 (long filenames). You'll have a file

	c:\djgpp\lib\libstd~1.a 

or similar, whose long filename is libstdcxx.a (note: that's more than
8.3 characters) --- check that from inside a running Win95, with
'dir'. That's your problem: there is no file 'libstdcx.a', which DJGPP
expects 'libstdcxx.a' to shorten to, in raw DOS.  The only solutions,
at this point, would be:

1) the "Don't do that, then" one: don't run DJGPP from raw DOS, and 
   you won't have that problem.

2) re-install DJGPP from scratch, following the FAQ advice (-->
   NameNumericTail stuff) to the letter, this time.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.