OpenEuphoria

Re: Still no luck...

• Posted by Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Apr 29, 2001
• 471 views

David,

Sorry if this sounds obvious, but I haven't seen your actual PATH= in any of
your postings. Are you sure it included the \euphoria\bin directory?

Thing is, the MS-DOS PATH= envvar can't contain more than 123 bytes (128
including the 'PATH=' string). You can append all you want, it just won't
'take.' That's why so many ugly inconsiderate installers, instead of adding

path=%path%;c:\euphoria\bin

as you did, do a dirty

path=c:\euphoria\bin;%path%

thus making sure they'll always be included (at the beginning), after
possibly having bumped your last few path bytes out of the picture.

There's no way I know around this in MS-DOS, other than pruning your path of
any unnecessary assignments (be careful! something else might not run!).

If a path larger than 123 bytes is absolutely essential, you might try 4DOS,
a command.com enhancement I used for several years along with Win95 without
any harmful effects (and many beneficial ones). You can download 4DOS
(versions for all Windows's, 3.1 to 2000) and Take Command/32 (kind of a DOS
graphics window, very enhanced) at http://www.jpsoft.com. It's not freeware
but fully functional shareware, no time limit or tricky stunts afaik. To my
knowledge, 4DOS manages a 256-byte PATH= (if they haven't enhanced it still
further).

Good luck.

Gerardo

----- Original Message -----
From: <dstanger at belco.bc.ca>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 10:45 PM
Subject: Still no luck...


> Hello all and thanks for the many responses.
>
> Here are the responses to your queries for more information:
>
> I am using Windows 95 as my OS.
>
> I added the following to my AUTOEXEC., saved, and rebooted, to no effect:
> path=%path%;c:\euphoria\bin
> set eudir=c:\euphoria
>
> I am using ED, which came with the Public Domain edition of Euphoria that
I
> downloaded, as an editor.
>
> I installed Euphoria by unzipping it using WINZIP into c:\Euphoria and
then
> doubleclicking install.bat.
>
> 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]".
>
> I must confess that I feel like an idiot. I am certainly starting off on
the
> wrong foot! ;)
>
> Many thanks,
> David