Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 10:12:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> > In addition to using ln.exe built with CVS libc, as Martin said, you
> > should test this with files that are not programs.  Functions such as
> > open, opendir, remove, rename, etc. should DTRT with symlinks.
> 
> And functions which are mere wrappers about int 0x21 calls (_open etc.)
> do not understand symlinks by design.

This means that my suggestion about making %DJDIR% be a symlink won't
work 100%: IIRC, the startup code reads djgpp.env with _open and _read
(to avoid bloat).

Then maybe make all the standard subdirectories of %DJDIR% be
symlinks.  That would still test a lot.