From: ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil
Date: Tue, 05 May 98 10:50:47 EST
Message-Id: <9804058943.AA894394668@CCMAIL.NTSC.NAVY.MIL>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: Make "Clock Skew" problem.
Precedence: bulk

As I said before I need to investigate further, but about 1 out 3 times from the
command line (main < input > output) the program reads the input and processes
it correctly, else it seems to fail to open the input.  Actually STDOUT works
fine.  This is very weird.

When I said DOS 7, I meant Windows 95 [ver 4.00.950 B ] / DOS [ver 4.00.1111],
the latest version.  I assumed that's what most people call DOS 7.

main.exe is just a name.  However the problem is in a small test program that I
wrote just to experiment with and get familiar with djgpp.  Two .c files and a
.h file.  I read input like this:

char buffer[128];
...
int scan()
{
...
if (!gets(buffer))
        return;
...
}

Seems simple enough but I haven't really got into it yet.

Thanks,
Rob Finley

-----Original Message-----
From:   Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> 
Sent:   Tuesday, May 05, 1998 6:48 AM
To:     ROBERT FINLEY
Cc:     djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:        RE: Make "Clock Skew" problem.


On Mon, 4 May 1998 ROBERT_FINLEY AT ntsc DOT navy DOT mil wrote:

> I have found that DOS 7 also seems to  have a problem with STDIN/STDOUT
> redirection.  The following statement does not execute properly from
> my Makefile and executes properly 1 out of 3 times from the command
> line:
> 
> output : main.exe
>         main.exe < input > output

Please describe what exactly happens which leads you to the conclusion
that it doesn't ``execute properly''.  I use DOS 7 extensively, and I
have never seen any problems with redirection, neither in programs
launched from a Makefile, nor from the command line.

Btw, is main.exe in the abive example a DJGPP program?  If not, what
kind of program is that?