Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/05/02/12:51:41
Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) writes:
> On 30 Apr 1996, Pekka Karjalainen wrote:
>
>> practice. The info-file in the bnu272b.zip package was incorrectly named
>> though: the dir file referred to it as 'binutil' while its actual name
>> was 'binutil.inf'. So I renamed it appropriately. Just reporting here...
>
> No, that's a bug in the long filename support in Info.EXE. It should
> have found either `binutil' or `binutil.inf'. The trouble is, on Win95
> the file should be named `binutil.info'.
Actually, it's a "bug" in Win95.
It also happens with Netscape. In Win 3.1, Netscape looks for a ".html"
file but the operating system makes a match with anything named "xxx.htm".
On Win95 this is broken in what I consider a bug; it should IMHO match any
request for an "xxx.html" with a "xxx.htm" on disk as well as what it
expects in this case which is an "xxx.html" where the .html is in the
Win95 name and the DOS extension is really blank. All of a sudden all of
my pages wouldn't link unless I changed all the <a href> tags to use
"xxx.htm" instead of ".html" and now I have to change them all to ".html"
when I upload them to the server! (Nor can I change the server ones to use
the .htm names as any links to my page would be broken by this, as with
bookmarks...if anyone has any!)
The same is happening with the info files I suspect. It's always wanted
..info but DOS and Win 3.1 match it nicely with .inf files, only Win95
expects a file with .info instead, since it is stupidly not backward
compatible.
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