From:	gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question for me?
Date:	17 Feb 1997 10:25:36 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: The problem is that many Unix programs
: have built-in assumptions about how valid pathnames look: they only
: know about forward slashes, treat any pathname that doesn't begin with
: a slash as relative to the working directory (what about "d:/path"?)
: and don't know anything about drive letters.  

Since DJGPP is a Unix-style environment, wouldn't it be sensible to refer to
the drives as /c/djgpp/bin/gcc.exe, /d/prog/myprog/myprog.cc, etc? Maybe not
force this notation, since the programs are running on Dos systems, but just
allow it so that Unix-based programs can be ported more easily.

OTOH, this would interfere with people who do have directories called c, d,
etc. in their root directory. Maybe there's a symbol which is valid in Unix
filenames but not in Dos ones? Then the drive-directories could be prefixed
with this symbol.

-- 
George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.

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