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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:17:03 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject: RE: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b
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At 04:36 PM 1/1/01 +0100, "Tim Van Holder" 
<tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>  wrote:
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 >Oh, and while we're on the topic of man pages, how would you treat
 >Perl's man pages (eg Foo::Bar.3). These are extremely invalid names
 >on dos. I'd suggest that man changes '::' in a man page to a '/', so
 >the man pages can be in subdirs (eg man/cat3/Foo/Bar.3).

PMFJI here, but while working on the upcoming perl versions 5.7.0/5.6.1 
a few months ago, I submitted changes to the perl build that will 
produce "Foo__Bar.3" under DJGPP.  This will need to be changed if you 
all think that it should be "Foo/Bar.3" or even 
"Foo.Bar.3".  Additional code might also be needed to automagically 
create new directories under the man hierarchy for the "Foo/Bar.3" 
case.

I am not participating in the perl development process at the moment, 
so if the choice I made needs to change, please email Laszlo Molnar 
<laszlo DOT molnar AT eth DOT ericsson DOT se> about it.  He is the DJGPP perl 
maintainer.

HTH

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org OR
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