From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
Date: 29 Dec 1997 18:23:55 GMT
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In article <6883ah$9ld AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>, ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA
(Paul Derbyshire) writes:

>Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) writes:
>> I don't know; I want to be sure
>>it's `ld' (and not stubify, say, or 
>> RHIDE itself).  I don't know whether
>>RHIDE always tells which program is 
>> currently running, and if it does, how
>>accurate this report is.

It is Windows that is telling which program is currently running, and it has
always been accurate so far.

I am running RHIDE in a maximized DOS box in Win95.  That means that whatever
is running shows up on the title bar.  When compiling, I can see the various
programs' names flashing on the title bar, like stubify, etc., almost too fast
to see, but it is easy to see LD, since everything stops while the zip drive
wakes up, and the title bar shows that LD is the active program.

Right now I am running a program called "test" from RHIDE, and the title bar
says,
"RHIDE Version 1.4 - TEST" while test.exe is running and waiting for a
character.  

(BTW, as has been discussed here before, the title bar is permanently changed
to show RHIDE at all times when you have environment variables set for djgpp.)

>I dunno. I think it is the linker myself. The
>linker has a known behavior
>(bug? feature? misfeature? You decide) whre it
>will access any drive a
>directory on which is in the PATH, so if his Zip
>drive is E: and he has E:
>or E:\FOO\BAR in his path he'd get exactly what
>he's getting.

That makes sense, but the E: drive, which is my zip drive, is not on the path,
and that's what makes it strange.  Only directories on my hard drive are on the
path.

--Ed (Myknees)