From: Gregory Allen Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: bison asks for .\shared\bison.simple Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 19:56:28 -1000 Organization: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3324F40C.20FC@hawaii.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ahi-2.pgd.hawaii.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp I'm using bison for a school project, and I was wondering -- why does bison fail if it can't find .\shared\bison.simple ? I found only bison.sim in the Bsn124b.zip archive from the djgpp archives. I made a shared dir, and I copied that file into the new dir as bison.simple, thinking that the dos extension may have truncated it. No more complaints when I run bison. 1st Q: Was this the correct thing to do? Now I move to my source file directory and run bison, and I again have the same error. So when I run bison, I now have to provide a full pathname to my src file. 2nd Q: Can I change this with a environment variable, so bison finds, or ignores shared\bison.simple? 3rd Q: (trivia fodder for me) what purpose does the bison.simple file have, and why hard-code it's location? Mahalo Greg -- Greg Allen Engineering Tech Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology University of Hawaii voice (808) 956-3145 2525 Correa Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 fax (808) 956-6322