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- From: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Gulam's $cwd - was Re: Does Gulam screw up environmental variables?
- Message-ID: <2151@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 12:44:05 GMT
- References: <1992Nov1.001546.16859@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <1d27jnINNmnf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <a1003302@skid.north.de>
- Reply-To: wabe@ukc.ac.uk (W.A.B.Evans)
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- In article <a1003302@skid.north.de> alf@skid.north.de (Alf Hoheisel) writes:
- >In <1d27jnINNmnf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bq035@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian Jepson) writes:
- >
- >
- >>==========cut here=================
- >>set path c:\bin,c:\,C:\utils\arc,c:\utils\disk,d:\sozobon\bin,e:\bin
- >>setenv TMP G:\
- >>setenv INCLUDE D:\SOZOBON\INCLUDE\
- >>setenv LIB D:\SOZOBON\LIB\
- >>setenv BUFSIZE 4096
- >>==========cut here==================
- >
- > stuff deleted
- >
- >
- Don't get me wrong, I like Gulam a lot and use it daily and the
- above discussion on environmental variables has been adequately covered.
-
- BUT - my one persistent and remaining gripe against GULAM is in
- its definition of $cwd
-
- IF $cwd is the root directory of a volume/partition (e.g. A) then
- Gulam sets $cwd as A:\ (i.e. WITH a trailing backslash)
-
- However if we are in a sub-directory (e.g. C:\SRC) then Gulam sets
- $cwd as C:\BIN (i.e. WITHOUT a trailing backslash )
-
- This causes hell with my $-aliases for C and FORTRAN compilations
- etc. which, ideally, I would like to configure so that I could compile and
- link a file in ANY directory - be it a ROOT directory or otherwise.
-
- I can see no logical reason for this choice by the (very worthy)
- originators of Gulam ( Messrs. Mateti, Bammi et al.). Indeed other shells
- (like CRAFT) don't do this - but I dislike CRAFT as it does not support
- $-aliases and is rather big (compared to GULAM) with no built-in editior.
-
- I wonder if anyone out there knows better - or can advice me how
- I may in Gulam get it to define $cwd as A: and NOT A:\ .
-
- Cheers, W. Alan B. Evans
- [ wabe@ukc.ac.uk ]
-