On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 27-Ноя-2006 13:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > >> BC> So who is for making HELLO=blah equal to SET HELLO=blah in FreeCOM? > >> Where you see this? Lester was just ask if this possible or not. No > one > >> was discuss adding support for this (except that Eric suggest, that this > >> feature doesn't supported by current shells). > BC> I'm asking now. I never said that anyone else suggested it. > > I see no reasons for this (this not adds required/used functionality), > especially this will eat extra memory for additional parsing code and may
3 extra lines in the source code. Hardly eating extra memory. > introduce incompatibilities into existing parser (which anyway is too > complex). > > >> BC> And according to POSIX, %PWD% is supposed to be set to the current > >> If this will be internal function/variable, which will not eat space > in > >> environment - why not? > BC> POSIX says that it should be an environment variable accessable to all > BC> programs. > > After all, DOS isn't POSIX system and DOS programs don't use/need extra > garbage in environment. This may be useful _only_ to ease porting sources of > unix programs to DOS, but there exist more elegant solutions (ie., for these > programs should be used library/startup, which will modify environment > statically or on the fly as need - similarly, as many compilers include > wildargs.obj, which emulate wild characters expansion by shell). > > BC> But AFAIK, things like CDPATH are allowed to be internal > BC> variables. > > Of course. > > PS: Blair, when you answer about using string instructions in callint()? It's fine the way it is. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
