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Q: All DJGPP programs cannot find files in the d:\dev directory, but work okay in other directories. What is going on here??
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 that directory to some other name, like \devel, or to 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.)
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