From:	Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200211280826.JAA11739@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject:	Re: Updates to readme.1st for 2.04, revision 2 [PATCH]
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:26:53 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To:	<E18H5kz-0000fh-00@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Nov 27, 2002 05:17:42 PM
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> +A 'long file name' or 'long directory name' has path components that
> +are longer than 8 characters in the portion before the extension
> +and longer than 3 characters in the extension.  A long file name may
> +also have multiple extensions and contain some characters that are
> +invalid in short file names (e.g.: spaces).

The point was that it won't take much more space to really list the
invalid ones: "+,;=[]" which is six characters. Compare this with
"e.g.: spaces" which is eleven.

Plus I just remembered that spaces are valid in SFN! So at least that
must be changed.


Right,

						MartinS

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