Message-ID: <B0FEA00E82A7D1118BFB00A0CC990278213299@ARGON>
From: Michel de Ruiter <Michel AT smr DOT nl>
To: "'markus DOT oberhumer AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at'"
	 <markus DOT oberhumer AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Cc: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        "'DJGPP workers'"
	 <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: v2.03: wrapping up
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:25:13 +0200 
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> I'm not fully sure, but I think /dev/env/DJDIR~c:/djgpp~/bin
> will pass unchanged through all shells, make and autoconf
> (because ~ is only expanded at the beginning of a filename).

May I repeat my suggestion of using {}? Curly braces are not
special to COMMAND.COM, and to Bash only if preceded by $.
Solaris' sh treats them the same, but they are special to csh.
In Make, {}'s without leading $ are not special. They have the
clear advantage of being more readable to humans and look like
Bash/Make constructs.

Of course, this yields *two* special characters.

Groente, Michel.