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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>,
	eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files from gnulib
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:02:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjwgorl4.fsf@meyering.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hbcwxr2l.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:49:06 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:37:08 +0100
>>
>> (if and only if doslfn is buggy, and it does not seems according to
>> a quick search).
>
> Your search was too quick.

Considering your wish to continue supporting emacs on DOS,
I would have thought you would jump at a possible solution like this.
If it works (and indications are that it does), then it defines
away the whole problem.  Wouldn't you welcome the idea of a DOS
port with no risk of 8.3 collisions?

What if the solution really is as easy as it appears?  Here is a
recently-updated FAQ:

    http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/what_lfn.htm.en

Please give it an honest try before dismissing it.

Just because someone wrote about a problem does not
mean using it to build Emacs will trigger the same one.
And even if it does, report it nicely and someone might
even fix it right away.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-25  8:20 RE : Re: Files from gnulib Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 14:51   ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-25 15:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:32       ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-25 18:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  0:45           ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  6:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  6:41               ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  2:42           ` Leo
2011-01-26  4:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 10:52               ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 12:42                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:09                   ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:50       ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 18:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:31           ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 19:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 20:00               ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 20:09                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:52           ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-25 20:19             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:04         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 19:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:37       ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26  3:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:02           ` Jim Meyering [this message]
2011-01-26 11:52             ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 11:58               ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 12:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:33               ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:26                   ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 15:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:57                       ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:56                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 14:35                 ` Andy Moreton
2011-01-26 15:31                   ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:28                     ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26 18:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 10:54                   ` Simon Josefsson
2011-01-28  2:27                     ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-23 11:36             ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2012-08-23 16:23               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:03     ` RE : " Leo
2011-01-25 17:16       ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  2:33         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-26  7:18         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-01-26 16:15           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-27  3:08             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-01-25 18:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-23 12:15 Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 19:29 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-23 22:16   ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-24  3:26   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24  4:01     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24 23:26       ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25  4:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25  8:48           ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 11:24             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 11:32               ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:07                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 18:07               ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 19:02                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 21:03                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:54                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:15                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26  1:05                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26  4:12                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  6:01                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 16:11                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26  4:02                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  0:32                     ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-26  3:12                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:24                   ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 22:06                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  0:54                       ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26  4:10                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:13                           ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:09                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:23                               ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:29                                 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-26 13:33                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:37                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:50                                   ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 12:27                           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:17                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:24                               ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:41                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27  8:32                           ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 11:08                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-28  7:30                               ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-28 14:20                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24  7:57     ` Glenn Morris
2011-01-24 16:37       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24  4:07   ` Eli Zaretskii

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