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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Beginner question
Date: 11 Mar 2004 12:06:26 GMT
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ahmose <ahmose AT homerightnow DOT com> wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2004 11:25:07 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
> <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

> >ahmose <ahmose AT homerightnow DOT com> wrote:

> >
> >> I run the batch file and all is good.
> >> I then go to start RHIDE and I get one of two results.
> >
> >Go back a step or two.  Before go on to run RHIDE, make sure your
> >DJGPP installation itself is workable.  Exercise the "hello world"
> >test compilations as described in readme.1st.

> Mmm, started to read that (in notepad). Could not be less readable,
> should I be using a different app to read it?

What's so unreadable about it?  

You may have better luck with DOS-based tools, though.  If nothing else
works, try

	more < readme.1st

in a console.

> RHIDE is 1.49b and was downloaded today! I am using Windows Xp Home
> SP1

And that's exactly your problem.  Unless I misremember badly, 1.49b
won't work on XP.  Google this newsgroup for earlier references to
later editions of RHIDE. They're at 1.5-something by now.  You may yet
have to pass special options for even those editions of RHIDE to work
on XP.

XP is a rather hostile platform for DOS programs.


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