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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject: stub.exe (fwd)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 09:38:39 -0600 (CDT)

> To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
> Subject: stub.exe
> 
> A wish for future versions of go32.exe:
> 
> It would be nice if one could be warned by stub.exe that no go32.exe
> was found in path. Presently, if a stubbed program doesn't find
> go32 in path, it exits silently and nothing happens. This can lead to
> funny gotchas, when one is used to e.g. unix style file/shell utils like
> mv and you do a mv go32.exe go32old.exe and subsequently want to mv newgo32.exe
> to go32.exe. I know, this is a silly action, but just as a measure of
> defense against human errors :-)

Another wish - that GO32 environment variable parameters could be installed
into stub.exe which would optionally override the ones in your variable.
Thus, I could disable globbing on selective images only by putting noglob
into their stub header.  This would also be very desirable when distributing
images to others when some necessary feature for this one image conflicts
with their normal GO32 environment variable.

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