From:	Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Which editor, and, install prob with tmp dir
Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:49:12 +1100
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>1. What do you recommend as a basic text editor in djgpp?  Something that 
>honours whitespace properly (unlike MS Edit) but isn't huge like RHIDE, 
>and is not vi?  I'd love to use Joe but I can't get it to compile.
How about setedit? It's smaller than Rhide and is the editor that is
included in Rhide. 

What is the problem with compilng Joe? 

>Anyway, main query
>2. Why is getenv("TMPDIR") returning "c:\djgpp\tmp" (back slashes) when from 
>bash, TMPDIR is definitely set with forward slashes?  Thanks in advance 
>for help on this one, it's driving me... buggy!  :)
I may be wrong with this, but BASH is a unix shell and as such will
try to convert backslashs to forward slashes. It can use either and
converts between both.
The setup code to populate the environment variables copies DOS memory
and as dos uses backslahes when you call getenv() there are
backslashes in it. See crt1.c for environment setup.

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