From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: mlang@delysid.org, mwolson@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ERC file names clash in 8+3 filesystems
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:07:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzh7o2sm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0602031603o6a43b2e6p@mail.gmail.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:03:59 +0900)
> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:03:59 +0900
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Cc: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>, Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> 2006/2/3, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > Some of the files in the ERC package installed in the Emacs CVS tree
> > have names that are not unique in the first 8+3 characters. DOSCHK
> > found the following clashes:
>
> Do people really still run 8+3-only filesystems (discounting things
> like floppies)?
The MS-DOS port is still supported, and I don't see any reason to drop
it just because a bunch of new files were added.
Btw, even if no one uses plain DOS anymore, files that clash in the
8+3 namespace are trouble on some versions of Windows, due to bugs in
the MS algorithm that generates the 8+3 aliases. See, for example,
the thread "Re: `rename-file' with leading spaces in filename" earlier
this year.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-04 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-03 9:57 ERC file names clash in 8+3 filesystems Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-04 0:03 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-04 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-02-06 2:06 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-06 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2006-02-06 7:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-04 18:26 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-04 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-04 19:41 ` Michael Olson
2006-02-04 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-02-07 15:41 ` Michael Olson
2006-02-07 20:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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