Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/25/00:20:52
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Bill Currie wrote:
> Sounds like the 'empty path' bug of djgpp 2.00. Try rebuilding bash
> with 2.01 and see what happens.
No need to rebuild. The bug was in the stub, so just `exe2coff' followed
by `stubify' will do.
However, I don't think this is that bug, because Daysuke Aoyama (who
ported bash) worked with the latest versions of v2.01 when he produced
the final release.
> The only problem I can think of is how bash is going to find djgpp.env
> and know to load it. This may require a special environment file loader
> (I think Charles Sandman's tsr sample shows how to specifiy your own).
Why bother? COMMAND.COM can be loaded HIGH with any decent memory
manager, so you don't lose a single byte to it below 640K. It's no
simple feat to be able to load as a primary shell (as you have
discovered), but on MSDOS you don't gain much by being one, so I submit
it isn't worth the hassle. Just load bash from COMMAND.COM and move on.
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