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- From: Andrew Bros <bros@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: REPOST: Questions installing emx0.8e for the first time
- Originator: bros@neptune.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.145947.19762@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:59:47 GMT
- Reply-To: bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros)
- References: <1992Dec29.230446.21915@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Dec29.230446.21915@srg.srg.af.mil> scurry@pansy.srg (Scott Curry) writes:
- >I have two questions about installing emx0.8e.
- >
- >First, I realize that the c++ include files are longer than 8.3 and should
- >be installed under HPFS, but I am still using FAT and want to know if there
- >is a work around or solution to getting emx to install the c++ stuff under
- >FAT? Has someone reconfigured emx0.8e to conform to the FAT 8.3 filenames?
- >
- >Second, I am having trouble with termcap under emx0.8e; hence, gdb4.6 doesn't
- >work. Specifically, I have setup the environment variables etc, correctly, but
- >emx stills says my term is too dum to run gdb and I assume that is because
- >something is wrong with the termcap, but I am not sure what. Any hints?
- >
-
- I would suggest that you post your config.sys. You say you have the
- environment variables set correctly, but you may be mistaken, or may
- have missed one. What did you set TERM to be?
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