From: "R.G. Morgan" <R DOT G DOT Morgan AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Starnge rm behavour
Date: 6 Mar 1997 11:56:22 GMT
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In article <33114480 DOT 7B0C AT cs DOT com>, "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> writes:
|> Ove Kaaven wrote:
|> > 
|> > Isn't it easier to just let redir expand the wildcards?
|> 
|> No, because that could screw up any non-djgpp programs that redir
|> invokes.  There are other reasons as well, but I'm not 100% clear on the
|> details.  Let's just say that it's better the way it is.  :)
|> 
|> BTW, has anyone tried my patch yet?  Any problems?
|> 

	No, no problems with patch 1.  I was most concerned by the change (in the
library functions spawnXX ), because it stopped me using redir to save the output
of gcc:  redir -e junk gcc *.c -Wall  no longer worked.  In fact I was reduced to
using Crtl-S/Crtl-Q (and switching off my disk cache so it went slowly enough).
	As to problems using redir with non-GNU programs - how many people use
redir with these programs anyway?  Would it be that much of a problem if it
assumed the command target was djgpp-compiled ?

		R DOT G DOT Morgan AT ncl DOT ac DOT uk