X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Neo_1061) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Strange behavior of ld Organization: Geeks Anonymous Message-ID: <3cc4e9ba.538603113@news.primus.ca> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 42 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 05:04:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.210.107 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news.tor.primus.ca 1019538288 216.254.210.107 (Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:04:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:04:48 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:44:07 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii jacked into the Matrix and the following appeared in comp.os.msdos.djgpp: > >On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Neo_1061 wrote: > >> I could ask around for someone to recommend a reliable, inexpensive ISP, >> if I didn't know that there's no such beast in the zoo. > >Try http://news.cis.dfn.de. It's free and very good. Web based news? Thanks, but no thanks. If I were going to use such an awful, awful thing at all, I'd use google, anyway. >> My environment has a couple of temp variables, all pointing at >> C:\Windows\temp. > >How much free space do you have on the C: drive? Hundred megs or more. >Because IIRC the linker produces a temporary file before overwriting an >existing file, in case it fails. Sounds sensible. In this case, though, that should have meant around 1 meg of space during such times. Also, it doesn't seem to do that all the time. I have sometimes aborted the linker with ^C and been left with an unusable exe file, not the old version of the exe file. >> DJGPP itself is on the C: partition, and C:\DJGPP\TMP exists, but has >> only a "remove.me" file in it at this time. > >This is a normal situation for the temporary directory: temporary files >are removed when the program finishes. Some ill-behaved programs have been known not to do so. Of course, DJGPP tools tend to be well-behaved. -- Still waters run deep.