From: "David" <nobody AT bogus DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: Re: DJGPP port of WHICH
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:13:00 -0400
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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I played around with the __dosexec_find_on_path function, but it
would require major changes to the original "which.c" source code
to support the "-a" switch.  The "-a" switch is the reason I
wanted to use "which" to begin with, as I have 3 different
versions of grep on my system, and I like to be able to check
which one I will be calling.

Questions:
1. Is there enough of a demand for a DJGPP version of which for it
to be worthwhile to change the "which.c" to use the
__dosexec_find_on_path and still support the "-a" switch?
2. Would anyone be interested in a version of "which" that allows
the user to specify extra search extensions in an environment
variable?  This would be useful for finding Perl scripts, Windows
NT ".cmd" files, and other interesting executables.

Eli Zaretskii wrote in message
<5567-Mon21Aug2000143151+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>...
>> From: "David" <nobody AT bogus DOT org>
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:28:18 -0400
>>
>> What is the "bash exec-finding code"?  I added this little hack
to
>> search a list of extensions:


...deleted hack

>There is a library function which will do all this: it's called
>__dosexec_find_on_path.