On September 4, 2001 at 10:10, John Poltorak wrote:
o The default value of DEFRCNAME is now ".mhonarc.mrc"
("mhonarc.mrc" for Win/DOS).
The default value is also "mhonarc.mrc" on OS/2.
Just wondered how the default name for a particular system is determined...
"mhonarc.mrc" is used if $MSDOS or $VMS is true. Look at the
file osinit.pl on how these variables get set. Here is the snippet
that causes $MSDOS to be set to 1:
} elsif (($^O !~ /cygwin/i) &&
(($^O =~ /mswin/i) ||
($^O =~ /\bdos\b/i) ||
(($tmp = $ENV{'COMSPEC'}) &&
($tmp =~ /^[a-zA-Z]:\\/) &&
(-e $tmp))) ) {
$MSDOS = 1; $MACOS = 0; $UNIX = 0; $VMS = 0;
$DIRSEP = '\\'; $CURDIR = '.';
$PATHSEP = ';';
I betting that $ENV{'COMSPEC'} is set under OS/2.
I am under the impression that OS/2 should be treated as "msdos" for
the purposes of MHonArc usage. If you believe this to be incorrect,
please follow-up on how OS/2 should be handled so I can make the
corrections in osinit.pl.
One thing I would like is to explicitly check for OS/2. Can you
provide what the value of $^O is in Perl under OS/2?
Thanks,
--ewh
