Subject: Re: A useful option prodiuces PC-illegal filenames!!
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp (Stephen Turnbull)
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 02:49:16 -0600 (CST)
Cc: terra AT diku DOT dk, A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough Stephen Turnbull said:
> Of course you don't mean that, since the files would become "foo.c_r"
> and "foo.c_j".  With "foo.cc" all debugging dumps are "foo.cc_".  A
> rather small name space IMHO.  And with "foo.c++" the original source
> gets overwritten.  Serious oops, that.  You need to substitute "_" for
> "." in the original filenames (maybe better simply drop the dot?)

The emx solution was to shorten the names to three unique chars
(ie, .jp1, .jp2, .loo, .flo, etc) and then replace .c with
appropriate extension.

Not sure if the emx mods are also rolled into the the standard
gcc code, but if so, mebbe it could be configured to be built
that way for both emx and go32 versions.

mrc
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