Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 08:47:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: Ian Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: File utils are crap?
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On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> Would it be possible to put a switch in the DJGPP startup code that
> turns off this implicit device handling?  That way a program ported from
> Unix would work properly, but a program written for DOS alone could turn
> off the handling and be able to use "/dev" like it expects to.

You don't need the switch, it's already there.  Just don't let your files
begin with "/dev" or "x:/dev", and this feature won't happen. 
"X:\\DEV\\myfile", "d:\\dev\\", "\\dev" and the like will all avoid this
translation, as it only catches Unix-style pathnames with forward slashes. 
If you are writing a DOS program, you might as well use DOS-style
pathnames, right? 

However, the original poster complained about a port of GNU Fileutils, 
and those convert DOS-style pathnames to Unix-style before `main' is 
called (otherwise, there would be too much #ifdef'ing throughout the 
code).  So the above solution isn't available in that case, sorry.