From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Running DJGPP binaries on Ramdisk
Date: 29 Sep 2000 15:10:07 GMT
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cat AT animal DOT u-net DOT com wrote:
>                         DJGPP AND RAMDISK
[...]
>     D:\D4>d4x test.afn x=ada#tab_b50

>     OMPT=: cannot open       cryptic error message.

Ah, that one. That's an old problem caused by your diskette boot, and
the somewhat unusual contents of your extremely stripped-down boot
diskette's autoexec.bat and config.sys.

That 'OMPT' is the end of the environment variable 'PROMPT', and the
actual problem is that no PATH variable is availabe, or its value
illegal.

IIRC, the fix was to set up a usable PATH in autoexec.bat, like:

	path a:\;d:\d4
	
or something like that. Creating a COMSPEC line in config.sys may also
help.


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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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