Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:57:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Waldemar Schultz wrote:

> > cool!
> > Is ther a list of other such useful commands like taht?
> 
> sorry, disregard the question please. of course it's in info *Utilities.

Yes, it's in "info utils".  But, as a hint, based on much grey hair I got 
looking for these tricks, the other useful command is `redir'.  And I 
don't mean just as a standard stream redirector; I mean as a general 
launcher of programs.  For example, you could use it to safely run a 
program whose pathname is given with Unix-style forward slashes 
(typically, in a Makefile), even if you need to call COMMAND.COM.  Here's 
an example:

  foo/bar:
	if exist foo\bar.o $(MAKE) -C foo

This will not work, because $(MAKE) expands into something like 
"c:/djgpp/bin/make.exe", and COMMAND.COM would choke on it.  But
the following *will* work:

  foo/bar:
	if exist foo\bar.o redir $(MAKE) -C foo bar