Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/11/19/12:27:19
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Oberhumer Markus wrote:
> - long time ago, when the MiNT kernel was adding UNIX support
> to TOS (on the Atari ST) they introduced /dev/a/ as a
> synonym for a:\ - this really worked fine.
> IMHO it is much better than those //A/ or \\A\ suggestions.
Can you suggest a clean change that will implement this? The problem is
that the /dev/ hack in `putpath' causes grief to people who create a
directory by that name (``dev'' for ``development'', get it?) and then
come back crying that many of the DJGPP programs don't work with files in
that directory.
It might be that the way I changed the original DJ's code is stupid and
can be made better, so everybody is happy. If so, please suggest a
change.
But if there's no simple solution that will allow people to have a
directory called /dev/ *and* support /dev/c/ -> c:/ translation, I don't
think we should make a bad situation any worse.
> - the _system_* flags are both in <stdlib.h> and <sys/system.h>
Nuke the <sys/system.h> copy. It was left there in v2.01 for the sake of
back compatibility with v2.0. I think it's time to discontinue that.
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