From: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 beta update
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:10:13 GMT
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Hi,

Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl> wrote:

>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.

The method used in Bash 2.03 is already compatible with DJGPP 2.02 and with
any programs compiled with DJGPP 2.02's libc.

>
>This would also be the place to
>implement the bash SYSROOT functionality. Currently

And this feature is already in the works for the next release after DJGPP
2.03. Search for 'chroot' in the djgpp-worker archives.

Mark
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