Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!greggt From: greggt@ncoast.UUCP (Gregg Thompson) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Re: MSDOS PATH setting and overlay files Message-ID: <1866@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 13:09:28 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.1866 Posted: Wed Dec 24 13:09:28 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 00:38:28 EST References: <3130001@hplsla.HP.COM> <544@rtech.UUCP> Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 37 > I downloaded it for the sole purpose of getting WordStar to work on > subdirectories, so that it could pick up the two overlay files in my old > creaky version. Because of this, I did not attempt to use it for anything > else. > > I finally got rid of SEARCH when I got the Microsoft C 4.0 compiler. When I > fired up the compiler to run the simple example program, the compiler > printed an error message (the program didn't have any errors in it) and went > nuts, printing blanks until I turned off the computer. My first thought was > to follow the instructions in installing the compiler :-) so I deleted > everything and started over. No luck. I thought about it for a while > and tried fixing all the parameters with config.sys I could conceive of. > I thought maybe the environment variable space (which I had patched to 1Kbytes) > was getting hosed -- chopped out my environment variables unrelated to MSC > and cut back to normal. No luck. > > I sent the distribution disks to microsoft claiming they were defective. They > sent me a new set, which I installed according to the instructions. Still > bombed. > > After 2 more days of cursing, tearing hair, and hiding under my desk, I > finally figured out that SEARCH was blowing the compiler out. After > removing it from my autoexec.bat file the compiler worked just ducky > from there on. > > I hope this saves someone from perdition. > > -Brent Williams > Relational Technology, Inc. > 1080 Marina Village Parkway > Alameda, CA 94501 > 415-769-1400 > > {amdahl,sun,hoptoad,cpsc6a,mtxinu}!rtech!brent Interesting... I have been using search and MSC 4.0 with no problems! I still have to set the LIB, INCLUDE, and SYS variables. As for problems, none!