Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:23:43 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Juan Manuel Guerrero <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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Subject: Re: bug in sort.exe (Textutils-2.0)
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:

> There is a bug in sort.exe that inhibits its use under plain DOS.
> This bug concerns the file name generation for temporary files.
> 
> This is a quote of sort.c, line #46-#50:
>   #if HAVE_PATHCONF && defined _PC_NAME_MAX
>   # define NAME_MAX_IN_DIR(Dir) pathconf (Dir, _PC_NAME_MAX)
>   #else
>   # define NAME_MAX_IN_DIR(Dir) 255
>   #endif
> 
> The HAVE_PATHCONF macro seems to have some "guard" function.
> But the HAVE_PATHCONF macro is *never* defined by the configure script
> nor somewhere else.

Please be sure you have the latest txt20?.zip from SimTel.NET.  This bug 
was indeed present in the initial upload of Textutils, but someone 
reported it, so I corrected the bug and uploaded fixed source and binary 
distributions.  The latest upload should be dated February 6, 2000, and 
the file config.h in txt20s.zip should #define HAVE_PATHCONF to 1 on its 
last line.

The bug was actually in the configure script in the original FSF release.