Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/06/10:48:25
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> (Yeah, I know I should write a tutorial on porting Unix software, but
> where do I get the time?? Hopefully, this will be useful to people out
> there.)
>
> On 6 Jan 1999, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>
> > "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/bzip2-0.9.0c-DOS.zip" or
> > "ftp://ftp.rahul.net/pub/dkaufman/bzip2-0.9.0c-DOS.zip"
>
> Thanks for your efforts in porting this.
>
> I took a quick look at this port. Here are some comments.
>
> > I believe that long filenames will probably be preserved under Windows9x
>
> No, they aren't. The ported program works on Windows 9X exactly as it
> does on plain DOS. For example, `foo.bar' is compressed into
> `foo_bar.bz2', not into `foo.bar.bz2' as a Windows user would expect.
I had no idea that filenames with more than one "." were allowed on
Windows 9x. When I said "long filenames will probably be preserved", I
really meant to say "more than 8 characters of the filename will
probably be preserved".
> ... (lots of good suggestions)
Thanks for all the pointers. As you can probably tell, I am not a
programmer. I'll try to incorporate these suggestions and redo the
port. All other suggestions welcome.
Doug
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Internet: dkaufman AT rahul DOT net (preferred)
bn900 AT cleveland DOT freenet DOT edu
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