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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 13:07:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Possible enhancements on v2.02
In-Reply-To: <348C443C.1198@tssc.co.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971209130538.7213A-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> > Another, more subtle, problem is with the command-line globbing in the
> > startup code, since the LFN usage may change half-way through the
> > startup.  See the other thread on djgpp-workers.
> 
> Hmmm, hadn't thought of that. However, two things: I got the impression
> that wouldn't happen (unless the main program changed the lfn handling;

No, it happens almost always: if DJGPP.ENV says LFN=n and the environment 
doesn't override that, the startup code globs the command line as if LFN 
were set to y, and then resets it to LFN=n when it loads DJGPP.ENV.

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