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Date:	Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:28:10 +0100
From:	Robert Riebisch <Robert DOT Riebisch AT arcor DOT de>
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Subject:	Some `which' questions
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Hi!

I need some libs ported to DJGPP, but I wanted to start a little bit
easier. ;-) So I had a look at `which' ports 2.11 and 2.14.

1) Why does `which' look for programname.exe, .com, .bat in this order,
when MS-DOS COMMAND.COM looks for programname.com, .exe, .bat? Is this
to speed-up search, because most DJGPP programs are .EXEs? Or is this
the search order in the `bash' port?

2) MS-DOS COMMAND.COM looks for a program in the current directory
first. So `which' is useless w/o a `bash', because it searches in %PATH%
first. Should this be changed? E.g., by examining %COMSPEC% for
COMMAND.COM, 4DOS.COM, NDOS.COM, ...

3) What compiler version should I use for distribution binaries? GCC
4.1.0 is newer, but creates much larger EXEs. (I use GCC 3.4.4 now.)

4) How do I "package" whic216b.zip, whic216d.zip, whic216s.zip? Are
there any additional tools invoked?

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Robert Riebisch
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