From: Luke D. <cod...@ho...> - 2002-09-16 05:51:12
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>From: Ranjit Mathew <rm...@ho...> >To: min...@li... >Subject: [Mingw-msys] Re: MSYS and Win98 Woes >Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:48:19 +0530 > >Hi, > > Here's a completely baffling (to me) twist: the >following program *should not* work on Win2K but it >does! It does fail on my Win98SE box though as >expected. Can some one please try this out and >confirm this? > [snip] > >And here's the C program that tries to print out the >first 255 characters of "/mingw/include/stdio.h" - it >should have failed since it is not an MSYS-native >program but it actually works! [snip] > >Is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing? > If Mingw is installed in c:\mingw and your current drive is C:, running this program will work because "/mingw/include/stdio.h" is treated as "\mingw\include\stdio.h". Try running it from a different drive and see what happens. Windows 9x is probably just less tolerant regarding forward slashes in paths. Does Win98 work when you try to open "c:/mingw/include/stdio.h" ? >Ranjit. > >Earnie Boyd wrote: >>Ranjit Mathew wrote: >> >>>However, why does it work on Win2K then? >>> >> >> >>Hmm... I haven't a clue what the difference might be. Are you sure you >>have the same MSYS version on both? This just points to my needing to >>find a nice Win98 machine for testing. >> >>Earnie. >> Luke Dunstan _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com |