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Article #46474Re: GCC -> MSDOS for Dummies?
From: David L Evens
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 01:01
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 01:01
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Lucien Kress (tamarack@teleport.com) wrote:
: OK.
: Can anyone, using very easy words, tell me how to get GCC (or DJGPP) running
: on my DOS (486) machine? Several attempts have failed. This is what happens:
: I FTP to a SimTel mirror & follow the instructions in the README.1ST file. I
: download the "modules you'll want to start with" as listed there, and pkunzip
: them with the -d and -o switches, as required. Now I have lots of files in
: lots of directories, but none of the batch files work -- they generated errors
: to the effect of "unknown file type" or something like that, and sometimes
: "file not found".
: Well, I have many more sources of confusions, but I'll stop here for now. Any
: help would be appreciated. Alternatively, if someone felt like taking the
: time to zip up their working gcc and gpp executables and send them to me, I
: would be even more grateful.
: Lucien
Did you remember to follow the instructions in the read.me file and set
up your autoexec.bat with the correct settings for
path/files/buffers/command?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11318c,6e233b4a570ae0a5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11318c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-17 17:01:40 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!aix11.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de!nordwest.germany.eu.net!pophh!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca!gadwall.cs.uoguelph.ca!devens From: devens@uoguelph.ca (David L Evens) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.help Subject: Re: GCC -> MSDOS for Dummies? Date: 18 Nov 1994 01:01:40 GMT Organization: University of Guelph Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3agudk$1in@nermal.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <tamarack.44.0045175A@teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadwall.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]