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Subject: RE: Long filename support, soon?
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:39:35 -0800
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I like doing c, ksh, perl, tcl/expect and (don't laugh) forth; are there
any things left laying around I can fiddle with?

Charles Stepp
Meskimen's Law:
There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Thompson [mailto:adwulf AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:54 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Long filename support, soon?

On 06/03/2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
wrote:
>
> It is one of the many enhancements in the forthcoming 1.7 series.  And
>  it seems it is also an excruciatingly large task.  There is no
timetable
>  for 1.7 as a result.  But many hands make light work.  If you and
others
>  you know have hands to lend, I know Corinna has a list of tasks that
can
>  use them.
>

Is this list published anywhere?

I'm not a developer (unless you're porting to Sinclair ZX BASIC), but
perhaps there are some tasks that us sysadmin/support/doco people can
help with?


-- 
AdamT
There's no onion in these onion rings.
Only disappointment, despair and shattered dreams.

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