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From: dodger@gcr.com (Roger Labbe)
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Subject: DOS GNAT 1.83 returns 'unknown file type' on compilation
Date: 1 Nov 1994 21:06:29 -0500
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Date: 1994-11-01T21:06:29-05:00
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I think I just missed a thread on installing GNAT 1.83, so
I apologize if I am revisiting a recent topic. However,
I just tried to install GNAT 1.83 on my dos system (MSDOS 6.21)
following the installation instructions. When I try
to compile a file using gcc I always get back an error message stating

Unknown file type

followed by one of 0x6957, 0x2d2d, 0x7270.

I installed by copying all 3 distribution zip files into the directory
c:\djgpp and using pkunzip to unzip them with the -d option.
I copied the supplied autoexec.bat commands into a bat file which I call
from my autoexec.bat file and rebooted the system. I used the gcc supplied
with the distribution as I did not already have gcc installed on 
my computer.


Roger Labbe