From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ERC file names clash in 8+3 filesystems Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:07:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139089177 26548 80.91.229.2 (4 Feb 2006 21:39:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mlang@delysid.org, mwolson@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 04 22:39:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5V7t-0006D6-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:39:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5UxK-00043I-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5UoH-0001kY-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5UoD-0001j3-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5UbC-0004q9-QU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:05:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F5KMT-0006fg-12; Sat, 04 Feb 2006 05:09:45 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-205-46.inter.net.il [83.130.205.46]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DMK64947 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:07:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:03:59 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50000 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:03:59 +0900 > From: Miles Bader > Cc: Michael Olson , Mario Lang , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > 2006/2/3, Eli Zaretskii : > > 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.