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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: pachy2 AT pionet DOT net, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 13:26:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Rhide deleting saved files
CC: rexcoffee AT netscape DOT com
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pachy2 AT pionet DOT net wrote:

> I'm working strictly in DOS 6.22  I have win311 on my computer and
> some widows drivers install at bootup, but I'm not using the windows
> dos box
> 
> If I use rhide to write a program from scratch and compile and get an
> error message;
> 
> #1  I cannot get the cursor back into the editing window (I've tried
> all the menu options and function keys.)
> 
> #2  I saved and exited.  Returning to rhide and pulling up my file,
> all that's there is a blank page.  It's either not saving or deleting
> saved files.
> 
> I don't type strictly hunt peck and backspace and after writing two
> pages  in rhide, pressing F2 at the end of every sentence and then
> having the file vanish, I was a bit torked.  I like the color scheme
> for expected expressions etc, but not the file loss for a syntax
> error.
> 
> Can anyone give me a clue?

I think you saved the file in another directory and then tried to load it. 
Make a search in your hard disk, RHIDE doesn't delete the files.
 
> Do you think emacs might work better?  I installed it but haven't been
> able to gain access to it.  I only installed the emacs files once,
> with no error messages.
> 
> One more question.   Would someone look at  C:\djgpp\bin\  and tell me
> if there is supposed to be a file  g++.exe at that location.  I got an
> error message from pkunzip -d   that it could't create that file.
> Thinking my copy of the gccp archive was bad I downloaded a new one.
> It was larger than the first one by 10k or so.  I got no error message
> that time, but no g++.exe file in the bin directory either.

One release shipped a g++.exe for W95 users. It was removed to avoid 
questions like yours.
 
> Oh also, I had to install most files at least three times to get it
> working to start with.

Why?!! does your system work normally?
 
> It may be my system (Packard Bell  486sx50  24megs ram, 408m hdd
> Phoenix A86 1.01E bios,  Cirrus Logic 5424 video with new ver 1.5
> drivers.)  is just not compatible or at least that's what I'm
> beginning to think.  I can, however work the small c compiler from the
> dos command line, if I build with dos editor or Bingo(A shareware
> editor)   I'm just getting started with c so don't know if C++ works
> from the dos prompt or not.
> 
> For now don't email as our server is down, a not unusal condition.  I
> do have a web account at netscape  though
> 
> rexcoffee AT netscape DOT com

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