Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:05:22 +0200
From: Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 beta update
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"Mark E." wrote:
 
> I'm also pondering making 'PATH_SEPARATOR=:' the default since
> Bash is a Unix shell and shell scripts expect PATH to be colon
> separated. Any thoughts on this?

I would expect this default to conflict with drive specifications.
The cygwin project works around this problem by mapping
c:\ to //c/. Might be a good idea to add this functionality
to the DJGPP C-library.

This would also be the place to
implement the bash SYSROOT functionality. Currently
ls /tmp and cd /tmp in bash refer to different directories.
ls to /tmp on the current drive and cd to $SYSROOT/tmp
respectively.

Teun Burgers

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