Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 17:03:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
cc: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Potential gotcha: Win98 vs. NameNumericTail
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980722130721.12561C-100000@acp3bf>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980722165407.12232C-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Precedence: bulk


On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> The problem I see with this is that I don't know if you can run such an
> .inf script (or anything equivalent) from a DOS-box command line.

Did you try "start foo.inf"?  AFAIK, it should do what you want.  I'm 
almost sure that if you ``run'' that file from the "Start|Run" dialog, it 
does its thing, and "start foo.inf" should do exactly the same.

> You mean: DJGPP's rename() behaves differently in this respect than
> DOS-7-in-a-Win95-box? To my mind, this would mean that M$ must have done
> something strange behind the curtains, again.

Read the comments in the sources of _rename.  It's all explained there.  
(Of course, the reasons why Windows 95 behaves this way are anybody's 
guess, but given that 98 doesn't do that anymore, I think we can safely 
say that this is a bug that even Microsoft admits.)