From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 20:29:25 +0400 Organization: MTU-Intel ISP Lines: 28 Message-ID: <39144865.818C4AD2@mtu-net.ru> References: <39142EF7 DOT F42EDBC6 AT centurytel DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp100-182.dialup.mtu-net.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gavrilo.mtu.ru 957630590 35472 212.188.100.182 (6 May 2000 16:29:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse AT mtu DOT ru NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 May 2000 16:29:50 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com It's not a bug. It means your OS is not configured properly. OS must have some more memory reserved for environment variables such as COMSPEC, PATH, PROMPT, TEMP, ... Find in your C:\CONFIG.SYS file a line that looks something like this: SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:6192 /P or add it to the end of the file if you don't have it there. Then try to increase the parameter going after "/E:" (max valid value is about 32000). Don't forget to reboot the computer after changing the CONFIG.SYS file. After rebooting try GCC once more. Hope this helps. Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru George Ford wrote: > > I recently purchased the GNU Software for MS-WINDOWS and MS-DOSafter > copying it to my hard drive I got the error message "out of environment > space. I have a Gateway 450 with Windows 98 2nd edition that does not > have extended memory configured. I checked with Gateway and they say > Microsoft is trying to get away from dos.Can recommend something to > correct this. I believe this an almost BUG.