From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.mail.mh-e.devel,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Shall we use etc/images more? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:51:24 +0300 Message-ID: References: <14536.1126060623@olgas.newt.com> <20721.1126158478@olgas.newt.com> <873bo9vree.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126641169 3176 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2005 19:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wohler@newt.com, mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Tue Sep 13 21:52:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFGpF-0002Mr-CF for gmmd-mh-e-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from projects.sourceforge.net (sc8-sf-list1-b.sourceforge.net [10.3.1.7]) by sc8-sf-spam2.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B5B1340F; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EFGoh-0000RI-Jb for mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:51:43 -0700 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.20]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EFGog-0003YG-Cn for mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:51:43 -0700 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-200-189.inter.net.il [83.130.200.189]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.6.5-GR) with ESMTP id BKL07272 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:51:25 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Report problems to http://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 0.0 SF_CHICKENPOX_PERIOD BODY: Text interparsed with . 0.0 SF_CHICKENPOX_SLASH BODY: Text interparsed with / 0.0 SF_CHICKENPOX_MINUS BODY: Text interparsed with - 0.0 SF_CHICKENPOX_AT BODY: Text interparsed with @ 0.0 SF_CHICKENPOX_APOSTROPHE BODY: Text interparsed with ' -0.1 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Original-Sender: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: mh-e-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net X-BeenThere: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9-sf.net Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: This is a forum for the MH-E developers. Others are welcome to lurk. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: X-Original-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:51:24 +0300 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.mail.mh-e.devel:10589 gmane.emacs.devel:42903 Archived-At: > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:23:21 +0200 > Cc: mh-e-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Shortening the file names makes it easier to be 8.3 compliant, and is > > essential in the images above. > > Does emacs support images on any of the 8.3 limited systems? It doesn't, but that's not the issue. The issue is that if we have in the Emacs distro files whose names clash after 8+3 truncation, then Emacs distribution cannot be unpacked on such a filesystem without, at best, troubling questions being asked by the unpacking utility, and at worst overwriting files without notice. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php