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> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:03:18 +0800
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> 
> I also think it is insane, the 8+3 thing. It is a huge burden evidenced
> by loads of weirdly-named files in the repo.

What on Earth are you talking about? what "loads" of which
"weirdly-named" files do you mean?  And how is that related to this
discussion?  The number of times I asked for renaming files was quite
small, so if there are "loads" of files that annoy you, MSDOS
compatibility is not the reason.