From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:19:59 GMT
Subject: `SET DJGPP = ...' defining a variable `DJGPP ' with space
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Message-ID: <5A5E7F60B7@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

> Re           set djgpp = c:\djgpp\djgpp.env
> instead of   set djgpp=c:\djgpp\djgpp.env
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote (Subject: Re: Suggestion for FAQ and
int86 question.):-
> Actually, the second blank (after the `=' sign) is harmless; it's the one
> *before* `=' which causes trouble, because it defines a variable called
> "DJGPP " (with the blank in the name) and thus the DJGPP startup code
> doesn't find a variable "DJGPP".

However did that silly bug get into Messy-Dos and stay there through all these
years and versions!?!? Before any desktop computer was heard of, my university
had a mainframe whose operating system language decoder was `fascist' about
spaces and insisted on ONE space as a parameter separator, no more or less;
but I thought such nuisances had passed away long ago.