From:	Gregory Allen <gregorya AT hawaii DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	bison asks for .\shared\bison.simple
Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 1997 19:56:28 -1000
Organization:	Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
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I'm using bison for a school project, and I was wondering -- why does
bison fail if it can't find .\shared\bison.simple ?

I found only bison.sim in the Bsn124b.zip archive from the djgpp
archives.  I made a shared dir, and I copied that file into the new dir
as bison.simple, thinking that the dos extension may have truncated it.
No more complaints when I run bison.  1st Q: Was this the correct thing
to do?

Now I move to my source file directory and run bison, and I again have
the same error.  So when I run bison, I now have to provide a full
pathname to my src file.  2nd Q:  Can I change this with a environment
variable, so bison finds, or ignores shared\bison.simple?

3rd Q: (trivia fodder for me) what purpose does the bison.simple file
have, and why hard-code it's location?

Mahalo
Greg
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Greg Allen                                           Engineering Tech

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University of Hawaii                             voice (808) 956-3145
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