Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:40:49 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Richard Dawe wrote:

> I was intending to make it support any language, i.e. by checking for the
> shebang (#!) notation or, failing that, the file extension.

DJGPP libc already does that as part of the `spawnXX' dance.

> Maybe it would be better just to see if 'perl' is anywhere in the
> path.

May I introduce an old and shy friend of yours called
`__dosexec_find_on_path'? ;-)

> Is there any consensus on storing configuration files in $DJDIR/etc?

There aren't a lot of programs that come with configuration files.
The usual place to put auxiliary files for a program called PROGRAM is
$DJDIR/share/PROGRAM.