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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 13:39:16 +0300
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Subject: Re: Announce: LBInstDJ the DJGPP installer v0.2
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On 8 Apr 99, at 11:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > > "For what it's worth, I always run my system with numeric tails disabled,
> > > and I have yet to see a single real problem."
> > 
> > So our experience differs. I  HAVE  seen problems there
> 
> The "no problems" should be read in context.  The FAQ refers here to 
> non-DJGPP software.  In other words, I meant programs which are written 
> for Windows.  I still claim that I know of no problems with those.

enable NameNumericTails=1
create file foo.bar1 in some directory and write something there
create file foo.bar in some other directory ,write something different there
try to copy foo.bar to first directory with Win9X apps (eg. Explorer, FAR) and
	foo.bar1 will be smashed (no DJGPP apps used)

Similary try fooooooo.xxx and fooooooo.bar.xxx and You may get the same effect.
I think there is many other possibilities to get similar effects.
However it may work in oposite direction. So the problems are not DJGPP related
and are real ones.

> Distributions that come from Unix is another matter.  Nobody promised to 
> us they would work on Windows.  For example, the latest Textutils 
> distribution tries to create a file with an embedded newline in its 
> name.  This won't work on Windows at all, with numeric tails or without 
> them, and so requires a *real* solution.
> 

I talked not only  about ports of GNU packages. Also in my apps I expect that if I 
want to write file with name (LFN) different from all in directory I'll get a new file.
Unfortunatelly it's not so and possiblity to get problems when 
NameNumericTails=1 is higher than without it (of course unless somebody is 
creating files similar as fooooo~1.bar)

Andris