Date: Mon, 20 Dec 93 09:49:41 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: terra AT diku DOT dk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Possible C preprocessor bug, djgpp only


> The situation arose because I thought I was smart (HA!) to include
> the sys/../ prefix in order to resolve a name clash when compiling
> Emacs.

More likely, MS-DOS isn't smart enough to follow this.  Internally, I
think it canonacilizes the path *first* then opens it.  Thus, this
won't work in MS-DOS at all.