Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2001/04/29/10:07:14
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:
> I just looked in the directory I used to build the package
> and files like NEWS are actually NEWS. I had to turn on the "Allow all
> uppercase names" option in View -> Folder Options -> View in the Explorer
> window, before I could see this. This is on Win98 SE.
Yes, Windows works hard to prevent you from seeing the exact letter-case
of file names.
> I am using WinZip 8.0. WinZip /looks/ like it does some bizarre filename
> manipulation, when you look at the list of files in an archive - e.g. NEWS
> is listed as "News" in the file list, "news" in the file properties.
"News" is the ``standard'' name mangling done by Windows Explorer. I
guess WinZip tries to follow suit.
> So it looks like Explorer and WinZip are trying to be "helpful" in the way
> they present filenames.
Yes, it's a known misfeature.
> Eli, while rummaging around I found an option that may have broken the
> Emacs pretests that I extracted with WinZip. In Options -> Configuration
> -> Miscellaneous there is an option entitled "TAR file smart CR/LF
> conversion". I guess this is similar to unzip's -a option.
Yes, this is one nasty problem with WinZip. The result is that it
converts loaddefs.el into CRLF format, which is (was) a mortal blow to
Emacs because of the special treatment of LF characters in loaddefs.el.
Since then, I made a change in Emacs so that the special handling of
loaddefs.el is not affected by this problem.
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