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Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.1 alpha 1 uploaded
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From: Jim Meyering <jim AT meyering DOT net>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:03:18 +0200
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Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
...
>> I'm not too keen on mangling anything -- even temp-file names in test
>> scripts -- to accommodate DOS's brain-dead 8.3 limitation.  Of course,
>> if you find a clean way to fix all this without mangling things, I'll
>> be a lot more receptive.
> [snip]
>
> How about doing the tests in subdirectories named after the tests? E.g.:
> backup-file.tmp. Then the prefix wouldn't matter so much, since it's clear

That sounds like a good approach.  Thanks!
I've just updated my template to be like this:

  tmp=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp

and will update all of the individual tests later.