Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:41:54 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Michel de Ruiter cc: "'markus DOT oberhumer AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at'" , "'DJGPP workers'" Subject: RE: v2.03: wrapping up In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 May 1999, Michel de Ruiter wrote: > May I repeat my suggestion of using {}? Curly braces are not > special to COMMAND.COM, and to Bash only if preceded by $. I probably miss something. How would {} solve he problem of designating the defaul value? Are you suggesting to say "/dev/env/DJDIR{c:/djgpp}", that is, to use the string inside the braces as the default value?