Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/12/09/06:13:16
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Bill Currie wrote:
> > Another, more subtle, problem is with the command-line globbing in the
> > startup code, since the LFN usage may change half-way through the
> > startup. See the other thread on djgpp-workers.
>
> Hmmm, hadn't thought of that. However, two things: I got the impression
> that wouldn't happen (unless the main program changed the lfn handling;
No, it happens almost always: if DJGPP.ENV says LFN=n and the environment
doesn't override that, the startup code globs the command line as if LFN
were set to y, and then resets it to LFN=n when it loads DJGPP.ENV.
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