Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:03:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Kmiec <ckmiec AT concentric DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install Problem
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Christopher Kmiec wrote:

> Then I got emacs and file-utils, etc. and I have a problem.  Every time
> I go to gnu subdirectory, I can't use any commands, ie. ls gives me a
> message:
> 
> C:\dev\gnu>ls
> c:/dev/bin/ls: .: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

Don't call any of your top-level directories by the name DEV.  That
name is special in MS-DOS (it creates an illusion that all the devices
live there, even when the directory by such name doesn't exist), and
is treated specially by DJGPP, for Unix compatibility.

Just rename it to something like DEVEL and live happily ever after.

The above holds for *any* DJGPP program, not just for Emacs.