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Date:	Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:20:03 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: m4 port: return program name as 'm4' not '/some/path/m4.exe' [PATCH]
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Richard Dawe wrote:
[snip]
> > How about if you rename config.guess.1 to config_guess.1 and do "man
> > config.guess"? (E.g.: for short filename systems.) Answer: it doesn't
> > find it.

Eli: I didn't mean any offence by this. It was rhetorical. I don't think you
took offence.

> Well, sure it doesn't: there's no config.guess.* file anywhere in sight,
> right?  The `man' clone does not automatically map file names that are
> invalid on 8+3 filesystems to something valid, I never coded anything
> like that.  All it does to support 8+3 filesystems is find truncated
> files whose names were truncated, like config_g.1 in the above example.
> I thought I was doing well just by having such a support ;-)

Yes. ;)
 
> > So what should I do with the autoconf 2.57 packages for systems with short
> > filenames?
> 
> IMHO, rename the files to something that will be valid on 8+3 volumes and
> mention that in the DOS-specific README.

OK, thanks.
 
> > Perhaps man could try transforming all the dots to underscores, if it
> > can't find it with dots?
> 
> That would be a nice feature, I think, but someone will need to code it.
> We could discuss possible designs, if you wish (there are a few subtle
> issues, like whether we should support remap file a-la djtar etc.).

I'll add it to my to-do folder.

> In any case, packages released at this time should not depend on a
> feature that doesn't yet exist in `man', so for now I think renaming the
> files is the only practical alternative.  I did that for Groff at the
> time, so it's not like Autoconf will be the first.

Yes, I agree.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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