From: JMK <jeffrey DOT m DOT klopotic AT lmco DOT nospam DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: My NT installation wants '\' in the dir command
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:55:27 -0800
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"A. Sinan Unur" wrote:
> 
> "Klopotic, Jeffrey M" <jeffrey DOT m DOT klopotic AT lmco DOT com> wrote in
> news:B66B0B4BF675D411BDCF00508BE32B120C8D3834 AT emss01m06 DOT ems DOT lmco DOT com:
> 
> > Dear Delorie,
> >
> > I installed a DJGPP package on a Win2000 machine and it works
> > wonderfully!
> >
> > However on an NT machine, it appears to want back slashes('\') versus
> > forward slashes ('/') for directory names.
> >
> > When I compile a simple hello world program, the W2000 works great,
> > the NT says it can't find file c:/djgpp/include/otherincludefile.h.  I
> > do a dir on c:\djgpp\include\otherincludefile.h and it *is* there.
> 
> hmmm ... there should definitely not be such a file in the djgpp\include
> directory. did you put it there? if so, take it out. djgpp\include is for
> header files that come with djgpp, not your custom headers.

Sinan, 
Thank you for the response. The filename above is only meant to
illustrate the problem, it is not literally what I did.  It's an
American thing -- but others do it too.


> 
> i suspect this has nothing to do with / vs \, and more to do with the
> lack of long filename support on the NT (although I cannot verify that
> because I do not have access to NT). what did you use to unzip the
> distribution files? what does the program you are trying to compile look
> like?
> 
> Sinan.

The unzip did work with long filenames per the check for sysmacros.h
versus sysmacro.h as explained in djgpp/readme.1st.  But there is
something in my NT installation that shows both long filenames one time
and 8.3 filenames another time.  I'll have to check more closely.

Thanks again for the response,

Jeff
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