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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Soz C V1.2 Upgrade help required
Message-ID: <1852@atari.UUCP>
Date: 4 Dec 89 20:34:20 GMT
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steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) writes:
| Under (almost) no circumstances should you try to use any of the Sozobon
| programs directly from the Desktop. In this example, how are cc and make
| supposed to know where to find hcc, top, ld and jas? They look at the
| environment, which is for all practical purposes the dark side of the moon
| if you run from the Desktop.

Honk!  There's a program, SETENV or somesuch, which sets the
environment up for the desktop, and hence for all of it's children.  It
can be useful for people (like me) who _like_ to use the Desktop.  I
don't know if this program is in any of the archives of comp.binaries
or comp.sources, but it should be.  I got it off of BIX, I believe. 
And then there's the mythical DA environment setter I was working on
which got mowed over by TT TOS for the time being...

| In addition to providing a proper environment string, Gulam (or any other
| competent shell) will pass arguments to the Sozobon compiler and utilities
| without mangling them. GEM Desktop uppercases everything [...]

The Desktop stopped doing that as of Mega TOS.  Rainbow TOS doesn't mangle
args in the TTP box either.  Yet Another Reason To Get Rainbow TOS.
YARTGRT?  nevermind..
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   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
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