To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Anyone running on Win95 or NT?
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 06 Mar 1998 09:36:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii's message of Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:33:58 +0200 (IST)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> Most of the other values are also set in a 
> way that allows either to be overridden by the environment, or to be 
> added to the environment, whatever is appropriate.

But not all; for example, INFO_COLORS can't be overridden without editing
DJGPP.ENV.  (This will be changed in djdev202.zip, I hope.)

Another reason why I have edited my DJGPP.ENV is that my base directory
is d:/djgpp, so some programs (like Groff and TeX) won't find their files
without setting some variables, and I rather put them in DJGPP.ENV than
in AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Could these programs use DJDIR to compute the default
paths instead of using hard-coded "c:/djgpp/..."?

> DJGPP.ENV is a result of a lot of thought and constant small improvements
> based on user experience; do not change it easily, especially if you are
> just beginning to use DJGPP. 

Maybe the "standard" version of DJGPP.ENV should be updated more often than
the whole DJGPP distribution.  Actually I could make it available on my web
site, if that's a good idea.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/