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From: | Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se> |
Message-Id: | <200211280826.JAA11739@lws256.lu.erisoft.se> |
Subject: | Re: Updates to readme.1st for 2.04, revision 2 [PATCH] |
To: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
Date: | Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:26:53 +0100 (MET) |
In-Reply-To: | <E18H5kz-0000fh-00@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Nov 27, 2002 05:17:42 PM |
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> +A 'long file name' or 'long directory name' has path components that > +are longer than 8 characters in the portion before the extension > +and longer than 3 characters in the extension. A long file name may > +also have multiple extensions and contain some characters that are > +invalid in short file names (e.g.: spaces). The point was that it won't take much more space to really list the invalid ones: "+,;=[]" which is six characters. Compare this with "e.g.: spaces" which is eleven. Plus I just remembered that spaces are valid in SFN! So at least that must be changed. Right, MartinS
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