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Date:	Tue, 04 Jul 2000 17:15:09 +0200
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
From:	Pierre Muller <muller AT cerbere DOT u-strasbg DOT fr>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP problem executing a script
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>> So perhaps the solution/workaround is instead to have dosexec_find_on_path 
>> always return slashes.
>
>I think this would be too dangerous: __dosexec_find_on_path might be
>used with programs that don't grok forward slashes, such as
>COMMAND.COM.
>
>I think if we need to solve a local problem with scripts, it's
>sufficient to solve it locally in script_exec.

  Wouldn't it be enough to just add a 
[perl] entry in 
djgpp.env 
that would do the backslash to forward slash convertion for PATH ?



Pierre Muller
Institut Charles Sadron
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