ml>>hahahaha, forgive me for laughing but it was as simple as

ml>>  unzip \dwnlds\emx09d.zip \temp
ml>>  unzip \temp\*.zip

ml>>or something equally simplistic... it took longer for me to
ml>>edit my config.sys file and reboot than it did the actual
ml>>unzipping >>

 DN> The install instructions for 0.9b, which I have in front of
 DN> me, ran 8 pages of A4 (U.S. Letter, more or less) paper. That
 DN> install took the better part of an hour.

i did actually print out these install docs from 0.9d... all the previous
versions i only did the runtime libraries as everything i was running was
already compiled... the latest precompiled of Apache that i have does not
(apparently) include some of the modules that i had previously... so when i
saw the full 0.9d in one archive on hobbes, i decided to grab the one huge
file and try to make a go of it so that i might at least attempt to compile
in the mods that i want in Apache 

ml>>actually, i as can tell, emx and gcc are already made...

 DN> That has changed significantly. My copy of 0.9c required an
 DN> earlier copy be installed to build it. That install was even
 DN> more convoluted than 0.9b.

that's why i only did the runtime stuffs before... 

ml>>i was attempting to make dmake to test that... i have been
ml>>back thru it more and i think i need header files from some
ml>>toolkit??

 DN> EMX contains its own version of the OS/2 header files. I don't
 DN> know what else DMAKE might need to compile.

hummm... i'll try to recompile again and see if i can capture the
outputs... i'm thinking that i might have to do something like (from
memory) dmake &2>>&1>comp.txt or whatever it is that i do
to grab STDERR as well as STDOUT... at least i _think_ that's what i need
to do... just doing a simple redirect, dmake > comp.txt didn't give me
any error messages like i was wanting...

ml>>oh yes... like i say above, i've actually compiled some few
ml>>things with it but until i can get dmake or bake or
ml>>something that works to make with, i'm kinda lost... i
ml>>remember reading about bake when it came out... if it'll
ml>>work with "normal" make files, maybe i'll try to bake
ml>>everything instead of making them... i like cooking better
ml>>than i do laboring anyway, hahaha...

 DN> Yes, bake is quite a handy make utility, and the makefiles are
 DN> a doddle to code. You can take an existing makefile and reduce
 DN> it to bake format very easily.

i'll play some more and see what i can come up with... i'm also going to
junt around and see if i can locate that os2.h file... when i was making
this attempted 0.9d version of dmake, i seem to remember something about
duplicate definitions or something along those lines... i'll try to make it
again and grab all the output and maybe post it here for assistance...

)\/(ark