Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/03/19/09:39:47
On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:
> > Actually, the second blank (after the `=' sign) is harmless; it's the one
> > *before* `=' which causes trouble, because it defines a variable called
> > "DJGPP " (with the blank in the name) and thus the DJGPP startup code
> > doesn't find a variable "DJGPP".
>
> However did that silly bug get into Messy-Dos and stay there through all these
> years and versions!?!? Before any desktop computer was heard of, my university
> had a mainframe whose operating system language decoder was `fascist' about
> spaces and insisted on ONE space as a parameter separator, no more or less;
> but I thought such nuisances had passed away long ago.
Not in MS-DOS, they didn't.
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