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diff --git a/README.DOS.template b/README.DOS.template index c857b22..b7f9dee 100644 --- a/README.DOS.template +++ b/README.DOS.template @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ New (since 3.74) DOS-specific features: 1. Supports long filenames when run from DOS box on Windows 9x. 2. Supports both stock DOS COMMAND.COM and Unix-style shells - (details in ``Notes'' below). + (details in 'Notes' below). 3. Supports DOS drive letters in dependencies and pattern rules. 4. Better support for DOS-style backslashes in pathnames (but see - ``Notes'' below). + 'Notes' below). 5. The $(shell) built-in can run arbitrary complex commands, including pipes and redirection, even when COMMAND.COM is your @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ To build from sources: either DJTAR (which is part of the DJGPP development environment), or the DJGPP port of GNU Tar. - 2. Invoke the `configure.bat' batch file. + 2. Invoke the 'configure.bat' batch file. If you are building Make in-place, i.e. in the same directory where its sources are kept, just type "configure.bat" and press @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ To build from sources: use them here. 3. If configure.bat doesn't find a working Make, it will suggest to - use the `dosbuild.bat' batch file to build Make. Either do as it + use the 'dosbuild.bat' batch file to build Make. Either do as it suggests or install another Make program (a pre-compiled binary should be available from the usual DJGPP sites) and rerun configure.bat. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ To build from sources: else Make might fail. 6. After Make finishes, if you have a Unix-style shell installed, - you can use the `install' target to install the package. You + you can use the 'install' target to install the package. You will also need GNU Fileutils and GNU Sed for this (they should be available from the DJGPP sites). @@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ To build from sources: Without a Unix-style shell, you will have to install programs and the docs manually. Copy make.exe to a directory on your PATH, make.i* info files to your Info directory, and update the - file `dir' in your Info directory by adding the following item + file 'dir' in your Info directory by adding the following item to the main menu: * Make: (make.info). The GNU make utility. - If you have the `install-info' program (from the GNU Texinfo + If you have the 'install-info' program (from the GNU Texinfo package), it will do that for you if you invoke it like this: install-info --info-dir=c:/djgpp/info c:/djgpp/info/make.info @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ To build from sources: (If your Info directory is other than C:\DJGPP\INFO, change this command accordingly.) - 7. The `clean' targets also require Unix-style shell, and GNU Sed - and `rm' programs (the latter from Fileutils). + 7. The 'clean' targets also require Unix-style shell, and GNU Sed + and 'rm' programs (the latter from Fileutils). 8. To run the test suite, type "make check". This requires a Unix shell (I used the DJGPP port of Bash 2.03), Perl, Sed, Fileutils @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Notes: This port supports both DOS shells (the stock COMMAND.COM and its 4DOS/NDOS replacements), and Unix-style shells (tested with the - venerable Stewartson's `ms_sh' 2.3 and the DJGPP port of `bash' by + venerable Stewartson's 'ms_sh' 2.3 and the DJGPP port of 'bash' by Daisuke Aoyama <jack@st.rim.or.jp>). When the $SHELL variable points to a Unix-style shell, Make @@ -166,17 +166,17 @@ Notes: redirection and pipes, and shall only call the shell when a batch file or a command internal to the shell is invoked. (Even when a command is an internal shell command, Make will first - search the $PATH for it, so that if a Makefile calls `mkdir', - you can install, say, a port of GNU `mkdir' and have it called + search the $PATH for it, so that if a Makefile calls 'mkdir', + you can install, say, a port of GNU 'mkdir' and have it called in that case.) - The key to all this is the extended functionality of `spawn' and - `system' functions from the DJGPP library; this port just calls - `system' where it would invoke the shell on Unix. The most + The key to all this is the extended functionality of 'spawn' and + 'system' functions from the DJGPP library; this port just calls + 'system' where it would invoke the shell on Unix. The most important aspect of these functions is that they use a special mechanism to pass long (up to 16KB) command lines to DJGPP - programs. In addition, `system' emulates some internal - commands, like `cd' (so that you can now use forward slashes + programs. In addition, 'system' emulates some internal + commands, like 'cd' (so that you can now use forward slashes with it, and can also change the drive if the directory is on another drive). Another aspect worth mentioning is that you can call Unix shell scripts directly, provided that the shell whose @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ Notes: reference for more details. The $(shell) built-in is implemented in this port by calling - `popen'. Since `popen' calls `system', the above considerations + 'popen'. Since 'popen' calls 'system', the above considerations are valid for $(shell) as well. In particular, you can put arbitrary complex commands, including pipes and redirection, inside $(shell), which is in many cases a valid substitute for @@ -197,12 +197,12 @@ Notes: Many Unix Makefiles include a line which sets the SHELL, for those versions of Make which don't have this as the default. - Since many DOS systems don't have `sh' installed (in fact, most - of them don't even have a `/bin' directory), this port takes + Since many DOS systems don't have 'sh' installed (in fact, most + of them don't even have a '/bin' directory), this port takes such directives with a grain of salt. It will only honor such a - directive if the basename of the shell name (like `sh' in the + directive if the basename of the shell name (like 'sh' in the above example) can indeed be found in the directory that is - mentioned in the SHELL= line (`/bin' in the above example), or + mentioned in the SHELL= line ('/bin' in the above example), or in the current working directory, or anywhere on the $PATH (in that order). If the basename doesn't include a filename extension, Make will look for any known extension that indicates @@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ Notes: require such a shell). More important, you can convert Unix Makefiles to MSDOS and leave the line which sets the shell intact, so that people who do have Unixy shell could use it for - targets which aren't converted to DOS (like `install' and - `uninstall', for example). + targets which aren't converted to DOS (like 'install' and + 'uninstall', for example). 3. Default directories. @@ -258,14 +258,14 @@ Notes: If you run Make on Windows 9x, you should be aware of the letter-case issue. Make is internally case-sensitive, but all file operations are case-insensitive on Windows 9x, so - e.g. files `FAQ', `faq' and `Faq' all refer to the same file, as + e.g. files 'FAQ', 'faq' and 'Faq' all refer to the same file, as far as Windows is concerned. The underlying DJGPP C library functions honor the letter-case of the filenames they get from the OS, except that by default, they down-case 8+3 DOS filenames which are stored in upper case in the directory and would break many Makefiles otherwise. (The details of which filenames are converted to lower case are explained in the DJGPP libc docs, - under the `_preserve_fncase' and `_lfn_gen_short_fname' + under the '_preserve_fncase' and '_lfn_gen_short_fname' functions, but as a thumb rule, any filename that is stored in upper case in the directory, is a valid DOS 8+3 filename and doesn't include characters invalid on MSDOS FAT filesystems, @@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ Notes: There are a lot of places throughout the program sources which make implicit assumptions about the pathname syntax. In - particular, the directories are assumed to be separated by `/', - and any pathname which doesn't begin with a `/' is assumed to be + particular, the directories are assumed to be separated by '/', + and any pathname which doesn't begin with a '/' is assumed to be relative to the current directory. This port attempts to support DOS-style pathnames which might include the drive letter and use backslashes instead of forward slashes. However, this @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Notes: is the standard programs which come with MSDOS. Otherwise, you are advised to stay away from backslashes whenever possible. In particular, filename globbing won't work on pathnames with - backslashes, because the GNU `glob' library doesn't support them + backslashes, because the GNU 'glob' library doesn't support them (backslash is special in filename wildcards, and I didn't want to break that). @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ Bug reports: <djgpp@delorie.com>, which is an email gateway into the above news group). For other bugs, please follow the procedure explained in the "Bugs" chapter of the Info docs. If you don't have an Info - reader, look up that chapter in the `make.i1' file with any text + reader, look up that chapter in the 'make.i1' file with any text browser/editor. |