Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:30:41 +0100
From: Helmut Muelner <hmuelner AT iicm DOT tu-graz DOT ac DOT at>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Definitive GNU fileutils ports 

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

[...]
>> 
>> A lot of this gets handled by DJGPP, either in the library or GO32, it
>> seems to me.

Eli> A lot, but not all of it.  Examples: the typical backup filename
Eli> generation paradigm (just add a suffix to the original name); the
Eli> blind belief that a dot is just like any other pathname character; and
Eli> the assumption that only filenames which begin with `/' are absolute
Eli> (what about c:/dir1/dir2/file?).

One nice example is "sort" from textutils-1.9: The filenames it uses
for temporary files consists of "sort" + 5 digits from getpid() + 5
digits for a serial number all generating the same filename "sort0000"
in MSDOG.

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