Re: automake 1.7.2b, tests/depcomp3.test and DJGPP

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> >>> "Richard" == Richard Dawe <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  >> If I knew I could have had more than 26 letters I'd
>  >> certainly have tried.  Out of curiosity, what comes after Z?
> 
>  Richard> I don't know. I tried to find out by searching my
>  Richard> archives of the djgpp-workers mailing list, but I
>  Richard> could only find a statement that there are more than
>  Richard> 26 drives. I also tried searching a fairly old copy of
>  Richard> the Windows Platform SDK, but that didn't help. I also
>  Richard> tried experimenting a little with Windows & mapping
>  Richard> network drives, but it only accepted alphabetic
>  Richard> characters.
> 
> FWIW, I've googled this
>   http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/119.txt

Thanks. I did try using the drive letter [ yesterday, which is the first
character after Z in ASCII. Windows '98 SE doesn't let you use it, though. As
the technote says, it seems like only [A-Za-z] can be used most of the time.

Bye, Rich =]

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