Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:09:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: USE_LFN woes
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> developed with DJGPP!  None of the real operating environments I know of
> change their file I/O behavior between calls on the basis of an environment
> variable, so why add such weirdness in DJGPP?

What's so special about I/O behavior?  If you change the PATH with a call 
to `putenv', would you expect a program on the new PATH to be found when 
you call `spawnvp'?  I think you would.

As for the code bloat, `getenv' is already in every image (the start-up
code calls it), so the add-on is minimal.  But I'll see what can be done
to make it still smaller.