Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 19:24:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Oberhumer Markus <k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
cc: djgpp-workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: 971114: misc notes
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Oberhumer Markus wrote:

> - long time ago, when the MiNT kernel was adding UNIX support
>   to TOS (on the Atari ST) they introduced /dev/a/ as a 
>   synonym for a:\ - this really worked fine.
>   IMHO it is much better than those //A/ or \\A\ suggestions.

Can you suggest a clean change that will implement this?  The problem is 
that the /dev/ hack in `putpath' causes grief to people who create a 
directory by that name (``dev'' for ``development'', get it?) and then 
come back crying that many of the DJGPP programs don't work with files in 
that directory.

It might be that the way I changed the original DJ's code is stupid and 
can be made better, so everybody is happy.  If so, please suggest a 
change.

But if there's no simple solution that will allow people to have a 
directory called /dev/ *and* support /dev/c/ -> c:/ translation, I don't 
think we should make a bad situation any worse.

> - the _system_* flags are both in <stdlib.h> and <sys/system.h>

Nuke the <sys/system.h> copy.  It was left there in v2.01 for the sake of 
back compatibility with v2.0.  I think it's time to discontinue that.