Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:40:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Mumit Khan wrote:

> I agree, especially on systems that support pathconf(). Unfortunately,
> it tells you nothing about how many "."s you can have, so you'll still
> need __MSDOS__/__DJGPP__ and so on.

It does, albeit indirectly: no other filesystem in the world but DOS
returns 12, so if it returns 12, you know only one dot is allowed.

> I'm done with what I had intended to do for protoize, at least for now.

Thanks!