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From: jwalker@Micrognosis.los-gatos.CA.US (John Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: RC Problem
Keywords: OS/2 RC
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:20:32 GMT
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In article <19349@brahms.udel.edu> 09710@brahms.udel.edu (John Schumacher) writes:
>I am embarassed to ask this but I am having problems getting RC to work.
>I just installed a new version of OS/2 (1.3EE) and the OS/2 Toolkit (IBM 1.3)
>on my system. I tried to recompile several programs but RC keeps giving me
>the following error message:
>	EXEC of RCPP failed: No such file or directory.
>I checked my include paths and path environment variable and they point
>to the executable for the RC compiler (and RCPP) as well as all of the 
>file included in my resource file. The message doesn't tell me exactly what
>it can't find and although I am sure it is something stupid on my part I
>at my ends wit. Any suggestions would be of great help.
>
>John
>   

	Its not something stupid on your part, its something stupid on RC's 
part. RC does not handle a PATH longer than 153 characters. If you have the
location of RCPP.EXE in the first 153 characters of your path then RC will
work.

					- John


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