Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:20:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Colin Walsh <cwalsh AT nf DOT sympatico DOT ca>, Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com>,
        pneyz <pneyz AT bethany DOT edu>, Mirek Prywata <mpry AT fuw DOT edu DOT pl>,
        djgpp AT delorie DOT com
cc: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, I wrote:

> The interesting question is why does it access the zip drive but not
> the floppies?

I think I know the answer.  Are all of those who see this have their zip 
drive mapped to disk D:?  If so, then the reason is that ld.exe has the
path name "d:/v2/go32/lib" hard-wired into it.  I'd guess that when 
Robert Hoehne built Binutils, that was the directory he used, and it was 
therefore configured as the default one.

Robert, can you confirm this?  (I saw that string inside ld.exe from
Binutils 2.7; I don't know what happens with 2.8.1.)