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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 10:39:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 prerelease now available
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-: A release candidate version of Bash 2.03 is now available from:

Mark,

Some comments about the bash203b.zip archive.

First, I unzipped the file into my /djgpp tree, using defaults
for most of the environment variables:

BASH_VERSION=2.03.0(1)-release
SYSROOT=[]
HOME=[c:/]
PATH_EXPAND=[]
PATH_SEPARATOR=[;]
PATH_SLASH=[]
TMPDIR=[c:/djgpp/tmp]
TEST_FINDS_EXE=[]

1. In ./info, I ran `install-info bashref.info dir' to update my `dir'
file with the bash dir-entry.  This worked, but then `info' couldn't
find `bashref.info', and I had to rename it to `bash.info' before info
could find it.  I don't know if this should be fixed on the bash side
or on the info side; maybe it is easiest just to rename `bashref.*' to
`bash.*' and rebuild.

2. Shouldn't you include `bin/sh.exe' with the binary distribution,
stub-edited to point to bash?

3. Add a brief description of the purpose of `rundos.sh' to the
`readme.dos' file.  You could probably just rework Eli's description
(appended below) from the mail archives:

www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/browse.cgi?p=djgpp/1999/02/10/06:11:57

(My own question about rundos.sh: is it provided so that .bat and .com
programs can be run from bash?)

4. (Nit-pick): was the last DJGPP-version 1.147 or 1.14.7 ?

Otherwise it looks real nice, thanks!

jeff

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Holger Wahlen wrote:

> By the way, what exactly is one supposed to do with the
> rundos.sh script that's included in bsh1147b.zip?

This script is for those DOS/Windows programs which don't understand
forward slashes, and it also undoes the effect of the SYSROOT
variable, so that the pathnames passed to DOS programs are complete
and correct.

> I've looked
> at it and seen what it does, but I haven't found any hint how
> to use it: do I always have to type "rundos foo" explicitly

Yes, you are supposed to say "rundos foo arguments..."

> or can I also tell bash somehow, for example, to call it
> automatically for .bat and .com files?

I cannot think of an automatic solution, but you could use aliases to
do that for specific programs.