Q: All DJGPP programs cannot find files in the d:\dev
directory, but work okay in other directories. What is going on here??
Q: I installed DJGPP in the e:/dev/djgpp, and it doesn't
work!
A: This is an unfortunate side-effect of the special treatment given
to the \dev directory on each drive. DJGPP transparently
supports Unix-style devices such as /dev/null and
/dev/tty, so that programs ported from Unix that refer to these
devices will work. Unfortunately, due to a half-hearted way DOS and
Windows support devices, the DJGPP library must treat the
\dev directory specially. The net effect is that if you have
a real directory by that name, you will get erratic behavior.
A work-around is either to rename the \dev directory to some
other name, like \devel, or move it down the directory
hierarchy, for example make it d:\software\dev. (The
special treatment is only reserved to the \dev directories
immediately under the root of every drive.)