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Date: | Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:09:27 +0200 |
From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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Subject: | Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b |
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> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:50:25 -0500 > From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net> > > It would not be hard to change the name to use directories (in fact, > that part is trivial), but the name would then have to be parsed to > find out what new directories to create and to create them before > writing the man file. The real problem with this is that it breaks the standard man directory hierarchy. > In summary, it may well be that there will *never* be an 8.3-safe build > available for perl on DJGPP. In which case, the "::" ==> "__" choice I > made is the simplest solution (though changing it to a single "_" would > probably be accepted without any complaints). I'd still like to know what does the Windows port of Perl do with these names. Can someone find out? > Eli, would it be too intrusive to add a "special case" to the man clone > to check for "::" in the requested page name and automagically convert > it to "__"? It's not hard. `man' already does some extra-special hacks to support 8+3 filesystem seamlessly (did you ask yourself what happens when you type "man install-info" on DOS? wildcard expansion doesn't truncate the name to 8+3, you know, so how does `man' find `install-.1'?..)
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