Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:25:27 +0300
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Subject: Re: Handling of TMPDIR, TEMP by various DJGPP programs
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> From: 065211 AT bud DOT cc DOT swin DOT edu DOT au (MURPHY, Jeremy W)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 17 Jan 2003 08:17:42 GMT
> 
> I don't want to have to accomodate both slashes, I want bash to just act
> normal, so that simple programs written by everyone else for UNIX will run
> ok!

Please don't forget that Bash can be used to launch non-Unix programs
as well, and those generally don't grok forward slashes (and also
don't have their sources freely available, so they cannot be fixed to
understand forward slashes).