From:	"Smith A. Cat" <imbe AT primenet DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Default system behaviour
Date:	10 Jul 1997 20:08:01 -0700
Organization:	Blue Square Laboratories
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Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:
> 
> I was called to help to troubleshoot a program of a coleague which is a
> recent convert to DJGPP.
> 
> In the middle of the code he makes the following functions call:
> 
>        system("dir /w/ogne/-p/s > dirs.txt");
> 
> It happened that his program would not list the subdirectories!
> 
> Searching further we figure out that system from DJGPP libc searches first
> the path for an executable matching the system call, and in the bin sub-dir,
> there it was dir.exe (a specialized version of ls, btw).

yes, and there are a bunch of other files which will do similar things
with other DOS commands, which are there as "patches" to makefiles which
expect UNIX commands to be available.  i think the simplest way to deal
with this, if it is a problem, is to keep those files zipped up, and
only unzip 'em if you're going to run a gnuish makefile.  i don't
usually keep exe's on my system that i don't need.

phil

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