hi,

I've managed to extract this compiler to c:\M2, but can't get it to do
anything much, presumably because I don't have the right path statements
set up (when I try to compile it can't find the relevant file).

In a win95 dosprompt i have the working directory set to c:\m2 and have
included a file called M2.BAT which contains the following

set path=c:\;c\m2\BIN
SET M2LIB=C:\M2\LIB
SET M2LIB=C:\M2\LIB;C:\MYLIB  

whic is as much as I can glean from the documentation. Can anyone put me
right as to what commands I should have to get it compiling? Or even
better can anyone send me their Dos shortcut?

Regards,
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: In a win95 dosprompt i have the working directory set to c:\m2 and have
: included a file called M2.BAT which contains the following

: set path=c:\;c\m2\BIN

Try making your path the following
PATH=.;c:\;c:\m2;c:\m2\bin

: SET M2LIB=C:\M2\LIB
: SET M2LIB=C:\M2\LIB;C:\MYLIB  

: whic is as much as I can glean from the documentation. Can anyone put me
: right as to what commands I should have to get it compiling? Or even
: better can anyone send me their Dos shortcut?

Well, it's been a while since I've used FST for anything other than taking
disk space as an archive.  It's also been a while since I've used DOS.
One thing you might want to do is get the latest version, 4.0.  You can
find it at:
ftp.psg.com
http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.html

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