From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199907041700.TAA12362@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Real mode redir.exe
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:00:48 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990704164942.13333o-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jul 4, 99 04:51:22 pm"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> Unless you need to address the problem of running 16-bit DPMI programs
> under REDIR, I really don't see why would the real-mode version be
> useful.

That was the reason I made it real mode program, yes.

> To say nothing of the fact that the current version of REDIR won't
> even compile with anything but DJGPP without extensive changes (and 
> the changed version won't work correctly), since it uses some trickery
> to pass the command-line arguments unaltered (i.e. without expanding 
> wildcards and without removing quotes) to the child programs.

??? It did compile relatively painlessly with some old Borland compiler.
But there might have been bugs as I only used it for a little while (and
possibly only for the Borland environment).


Pärt, Passio,

							MartinS