From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10301072025.AA16451@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
To: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk (Richard Dawe)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:25:07 -0600 (CST)
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> I've seen the "cannot make pipes for command substitution" error before.
> Restarting the make process seemed to do the trick each time (on Windows 98
> 'SE), so it seemed more like an intermittent failure to me. Which OS were you
> building on?

I'm believe it was Windows 2000.  I may have only seen the error once
and then gave up.

If this error isn't Win2K specific (or specific to my 2.03 based build)
then my patch probably works OK.