Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 14:03:25 EST
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: dea3 AT depinfo DOT u-bourgogne DOT fr
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: UNIX-tools compatibility using MSDOS
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

>       I get the DJGPP package containing DJDEV110.ZIP and other files
>   but I can't use the Flex or the Bison because the file names are given
>   with UNIX format using '/'.

I don't use Flex or Bison, but I will point out that it is only on the
command line that DOS insists on using backslash as the directory separater.
At other levels, either style slash will work.

>   #ifdef  _UNIX_
>     char *hairy_bison [] = "bison.hairy";
>   #else /* not UNIX, so MSDOS */
>     char *hairy_bison [] = "c:\gnu\bin\bison\bison.hai";
>   #endif

Minor complaint here is that there are other possibilities besides UNIX and
MSDOS, major complaint is that building paths into an executable is horribly
unportable.  If I had bison online, it would probably be in something like
d:\compiler\djgpp\bison.  Someone running off a network certainly wouldn't
use C:.  Also, didn't you really mean to write
   char *hairy_bison [] = "c:\\gnu\\bin\\bison\\bison.hai";