X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.86.224.167 From: Danno Subject: Re: DJGPP & WinXP? Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <1019778446 DOT 195503 AT queeg DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> Lines: 49 User-Agent: KNode/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Newsreader: Knode Message-ID: <8g7y8.35018$zj6.987661@news2.calgary.shaw.ca> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:23:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.70.95.207 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT shaw DOT ca X-Trace: news2.calgary.shaw.ca 1019805828 24.70.95.207 (Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:23:48 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 01:23:48 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > Sigh. Why haven't you read README.1ST? Just follow the directions > there (and in particular don't use broken unzippers). > RE:"broken unzippers". The WinXP unzipper included with the distribution apparently does the job correct, unfortunately, it's default setting is to prefix its extractions with a directory based onthe zipfile's name (so, aaa.zip gets extracted into */aaa/contents/of/zipfile/*). Although I am still complying with the Readme.1st instructions (installed twice, using them, BTW) by maintaining a common root structure and unzipping maintaining directory structure, I was unaware of this prefixxing aspect of WinXP's unzip software, and thought the each subdirectory which XP created was an actual part of the directory structure. I think it is a reasonable mistake attributable to inexperience with the OS, don't you? MCheu was quick to identify this, must be using the software. > : -- > : Slackware8.0, 2.4.18, 733MHz VIA C3 > > Didn't you say you were using WINDOZE? > Right, > MartinS Martin, I am going to repost the relevant part of my first post. I have to use Windows, DJGPP with RHIDE & gcc for a C/C++ course I've started. My system is running WinXP, and I cannot make this combination happen. I have more than one computer. You see, Slackware, much like NetBSD, comes with gcc already compiled & linked and ready to run, out of the box. If I have my druthers, I will be using it. Unfortunately, it looks as though I am stuck complying with Windows, because that is the OS that my institution has chosen to base the course in. If the learning is going to be completely console based, using non-Win libraries, then I will probably be OK with my primary (this) system. Until then, I have to work *this* problem under their rules; I prefer to use Linux for as much as possible, hence I post to newsgroups using KNode (hey, who knows, maybe I'll even move over to *BSD some day). Thanks for the kinda-suggestion, good luck. -- Slackware8.0, 2.4.18, 733MHz VIA C3