From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Which editor, and, install prob with tmp dir
Date: 19 Dec 2002 08:23:28 GMT
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Jeremy W. Murphy (jwm AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au) wrote:
: `dir' was just for the sake of example - this all came about because I am 
: trying to compile Atlas, and the `config' program is failing to run `uname' 
: with this error even _after_ I unset SHELL!

: system("uname -s > c:\djgpp\tmp/dj710000 2>&1");
: c:\djgpp\tmp/dj910000: c:djgpptmp/dj710000: No such file or directory (ENOENT)

This is simple. "\" is special in C (and some other languages as
well). To get one you need to two ("\\").


Right,

						MartinS