From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:28:10 +0000
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Hello.

"MURPHY, Jeremy W" wrote:
[snip]
> Under Win98 SE, if RHIDE is invoked directly, a sample getenv() program
> returns forward-slashes, but if you run RHIDE from bash, the sample
> program returns back-slashes.  Which just follows the examples you made,
> I guess.
> 
> Is there a simple way to tell djgpp to stop translating environment
> variables `/' to `\'?

I don't think it is translating /all/ environment variables - it's just bash
2.04 translating a select few. Solution 1: don't use bash 2.04. Solution 2:
make your program cope with both directions of slash.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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