Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 10:29:09 +0100
From: buers AT dg1 DOT chemie DOT uni-konstanz DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: suggestion for further djgpp development


I found the globbing, that go32 does, sometimes convenient and sometimes not.
I think, that this is almost always depends on the nature of the 
program in question. 

So I'd like to suggest, to make globbing part of libc and not of
go32. One could, by default call a Dosish globbing routine in the
startup code, or, link with an at link time specified routine.
This would be similar to what  Turbo-C does with wildarg.obj.
The module could be something like noglob.o or even unixglob.o.
Maybe we then could do diff -c file.{bak,c} someday.

The same could be done with response files, which right now 
go32 expands transparently. This is very nice, but can be inconvenient
as well. You could call the default response file expansion routine
in the startup code, or link with something else.

My suggestions would also take some code out of go32, where code
space is much shorter than in the protected mode program.


	Dieter