From: ndm AT shore DOT net (Norman D. Megill)
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Subject: Re: djgpp loses characters when pasting to DOS
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Date: 21 Jan 1999 12:14:26 -0500
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In article <784ho5$1hv AT northshore DOT shore DOT net>,
Norman D. Megill <ndm AT shore DOT net> wrote:
>Help!  Cut-and-paste from a text editor into DOS is losing characters
>when used with djgpp programs.  This does not happen with the lcc
>compiler, nor with standard DOS utilities.  It happens even with "fast
>pasting" turned off in DOS.  I downloaded the latest djgpp as of 1/20/99
>and the bug is still there.
>
OK, I found out the problem.  It seems there are a number of file name
conflicts with djgpp .exe's and other .exe's (including
upper-case/lower-case conflicts e.g. as.exe and AS.EXE - who knows what
Windows does with that) that I've collected from other assorted
gnu/bash/gcc/lcc/tex unix stuff, and each one of course demands it be
first in the path.  Amazing that it worked at all.  Too bad all tex
.exe's couldn't be named texyyy.exe, djgpp djzzz.exe, etc., simple and
clean.  In my dreams maybe...

Anyway I put djgpp first in the path, and the cut-and-paste bug went
away (phew).  I guess I should have thought of that earlier; silly me.
Now I'll have to see what else broke from doing that.

Thanks anyway.

--Norm