Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:17:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fwd: Sword3 Beta6 Released !
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On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> > > configure.bat doesn't work in UNIX format.
> > You  shouldn't use any configure* script under DJGPP with SWORD.

`configure.bat' isn't a script, it's a batch file.  A batch file
*must* have DOS-style CR-LF pairs at end of each line, or else
COMMAND.COM won't run it correctly (it silently ignores all but the
first line).

> The problem is that the copy of unzip that I have is stupid and doesn't 
> support -a (does nothing) additionally I think the files *must* be in DOS 
> format for the DOS distribution because pkunzip and most of the unzipers 
> doesn't support DOS->UNIX convertion.

I second this.  A user shouldn't be forced to use -a when unzipping a
package.

> Ok. You don't need to strip the file names, just ensure that the first 8 
> letters are different, that's all. The current distribution have a lot of 
> collisions because of files that have the same 8 letters.

This is bad even for Windows 9X.  Due to suntleties (some say: bugs)
of how Windows invents the 8+3 aliases, a conflict in the 8+3
characters can silently overwrite files and create subtle and
hard-to-find bugs.