From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ)
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for future DJGPP development -- depend on bash
Date: 16 Sep 1997 09:26:45 GMT
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org) wrote:
>Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
><Snipped>
>>Emacs distribution just doesn't have files whose names clash in the
>>8+3 namespace, or are illegal on DOS and not automatically converted
>>by DJTAR.  I kept reporting such cases as bugs until Richard Stallman
>>corrected them.  That's all there is to it.
>
>Obviously, that is a good solution.  Until then, however, I just
>thought there ought to be a way (and no, I don't know what it is yet)
>to automate such a process, maybe only for the package originator, so
>that one-name-at-a-time work can be eliminated.  I'm still thinking on
>it, and I don't claim to have solved it yet.

I was thinking about a changefile for djtar + a sed-script/patch-file
for the necessary changes in some other files, which could be made by
someone who has the time and will to do it.

Just my f0.02 (=$0.01),

Robert.
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