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From: Will Grainger <wfg1001 AT mrao DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: A newbie asks: What's going wrong?!?!?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:30:13 +0000
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> In article <781o4d$m00$1 AT pegasus DOT csx DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk> you wrote:
> 
> > hasn't got the hard-drive space for all this unzipped. But, whenever I try
> > to run go32_v2.exe I get an exception (after running cwsdpmi), and 
> 
> Getting 'an exception' is *very* vague a description. But even so, I think
> I can guess your problem: you haven't set the environment variable 'TEMP'
> (or was that 'TMP'?) to the name of an existing, *writable* directory
> before starting to work with DJGPP programs. And/or you didn't set
> the DJGPP env. variable at all.
>

DJGPP was set. I'll check TEMP and TMP tonight. 
 
> > Exceptions are also raised when running in a DOS box of Win95.
> 
> When doing *what*? You do know that you shouldn't try to run CWSDPMI
> inside the DOS box, I hope.
> 
I know. CWSDPMI is being run when booting dos, and not from a Win95 DOS
box. 

> > My questions are...
> 
> > 1) What's the problem?
> 
> A bit hard to be sure, with that little amount of information you give.
> We'll need at least a copy of the full, exact output of the following
> commands:
> 
> 	set
> 	go32-v2
> 
> and the contents of your DJGPP.ENV file (in case you edited it).
> 
Fair enough. I'll get the outputs tonight and post them tomorrow. 

Thanks a lot

Will


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