Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:02:03 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
>>
>>    > Because the 8.3 name restriction has a negative effect for _all_
>>    > developers.
>>
>>    What negative effects? can you show them in the archives?
>>
>> For example, the Info form of
>>
>>     emacs/doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi
>> is
>>     emacs/info/eintr
>
> That was 6 years ago.
>
> An issue that comes up with such frequency is for all practical
> purposes non-existent.

The issue will come up again fairly soon if I get Emacs Muse installed
into the Emacs source tree.  At that time, I will absolutely refuse to
cater to the 8.3 convention.  Muse can just be pegged as having no
support for MS-DOS.

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