Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/06/24/11:11:44
> 1. If you call getcwd(buf,255) you will get the current working directory
> but without the DOS drive. Is this a bug, an intentional feature or a
> temporary abberation which will be fixed. I would like to know before I
> make lots of changes to my existing code to accomodate this inconsistancy
> between djgpp and the other DOS compilers.
How many unix programs will break when you change this? It sounds
like an easy change.
> 2. The usleep() function does not appear to do anything. Is this a known
> problem ?
in 1.10, it calls sleep(x/1000). I got a new version for 1.11 that
uses the millisecond clock for more accuracy.
> 3. Is there in the supplied libraries a function that does the equivalent
> of stricmp() [string compare ignoring case] ?
strcasecmp() (the BSD version). I'll put stricmp on the list to add.
> 4. Will a program compiled with djgpp be able to communicate with a real
> mode TSR via an interrupt ? The intention is to call Personal REXX from
> within my editor compiled with djgpp.
Not at the moment, but I'd like to see that functionality also.
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