OpenEuphoria

Re: Still no luck...

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Apr 29, 2001
• 438 views

----- Original Message -----
From: <dstanger at belco.bc.ca>
> When I attempt to run a Euphoria program using EXW.exe (from Windows) or
> EX.exe (from DOS) it simply says "Can't open [file name.ext]".

Here's a simple test:
at your C: prompt, type ex <enter>
You should see several lines, beginning with
Euphoria 2.2 Public Domain edition....
That tells us that the interpreter is installed and can be found.
For now, just hit <enter> to close the interpreter.
If you didn't see the banner, your installation is bad,
better start over.

Back at the C: prompt, type 'dir *.ex'
You should see the name of the program you're trying to run.
If not, then you are not in the directory where you stored that program.
You need to change to that directory and try again.

The Ed editor will only show color syntax on a file which ends in .ex or
.exw, any other file extension will get plain black text display. If you
open a file named "test.ex", and type in 'puts(1,"Hello")', it should show
color syntax highlighting. If not, maybe you're not running the Euphoria
editor, but some _other_ program named 'ed' - it's a pretty common name:)

You'll soon want a fancier editor, anyway. For DOS, I recommend EE, written
by Dave Cuny, it's on the RDS website. For editing in Windows, MEdit by Mike
Carroll is excellent.

Regards,
Irv