From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I can't get the rhide command to work
Date: 18 Dec 2000 17:57:13 GMT
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Jefferson S Watson <jswatson AT inreach DOT com> wrote:

> I downloaded the recommended files for C++ programing and I think I
> did everything correctly but the rhide command does not work.  Here
> are the steps that I followed: 1) I created a folder named "DJGPP";
> 2) I downloaded the files picked by the autopicker for C++
> programing; 3) I used WinZip to unzip my files and put them into my
> DJGPP folder; 

This may have been the point you got it wrong. WinZip has a nasty default
of unzipping every package into a separate directory named like the package.
What does

	dir c:\djgpp\bin

print?

> OK, so I'm done, right?  Wrong. Every time I try to use the rhide
> command in MS-DOS, I get a "Bad Command or File Name" error.  

This means that either the PATH wasn't really set, or the files didn't
end up in the right directories. Please also show us the contents of a file
'env.txt' generated by the command:

	set > env.txt



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