Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/04/07:30:21
On 2 Jun 1998 17:21:19 GMT, Mark Alan Teagarden put finger to keyboard
and composed:
>I'm trying to install DJGPP on a 486-33 running Dos 6.0 at work. I told
>the zip picker my requirements and it chose the appropriate files.
>The problem was in unzipping gpp281b.zip. I keep getting an error
>message saying "can't create g++.exe". I have thought about renaming the
>file, zipping it, then unzipping and renaming it, but eventually I'm
>going to need to rename it back to g++.exe, and the rename command will
>not accept ++ as part of a valid filename, it comes back with "too many
>parameters"
>
>Is there any way to get around this problem? I cannot compile any C++
>programs because RHIDE always gives me a 'bad command or file name' when
>I try to compile; obviously it cannot find g++.exe.
Would it be possible to use DISKEDIT (Norton Utils) or DEBUG to search
your software for all instances of the string "g++" and to change it
to some legal DOS filename?
-- Franc Zabkar
Please remove one 'g' from my address when replying by email.
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