Re: error loading dia

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Chris Mullett wrote:

> I have just down loaded the Dia programs from the Nonags web site. On
> trying to run the program the following two error messages appear in a
> dos window.  Any ideas?
>
> 1) Could not create per-user dia directory
> 2) file gstrfuncs.c: line 160 assertion "string1 !=null" failed

This happens because you're running Dia on Windows without setting a HOME
environment variable.  The newest version of the Dia Windows installer has
magic to handle this.

-Lars

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