Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:48:45 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Tim Van Holder cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, "Peter J. Farley III" Subject: Re: Two glitches for autoconf 2.49b In-Reply-To: <3A5198F6.1000002@pandora.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote: > I have my reservations about using '__' instead of '::' though; few > packages have a name with less than three letters. This would give > Foo__xxxxxxxxx.1, where the xxxx would only have three significant > letters in an 8.3 system. Not a lot. We could use a single underscore instead of two, or even remove :: entirely, if that helps. > A quick check in /usr/man/man3 on my RH6.2 box shows a few dozen names > that would cause trouble (a few examples: anything from Digest, ExtUtils > or Getopt, as the name + __ is already 8 or longer, Pod::Parser and > Pod::ParseUtils, and several more). These names will give you trouble even if : was valid on DOS: they clash after truncation to 8+3. If the maintainers care about that, they should do something. > IIRC perl uses a perl script to manufacture and install these man pages, > so I think it should not be that hard to use subdirs if on DOS. Subdirectories is not a good idea, IMHO, because they go against the standardized structure of man-page directories. No `man' port/clone will support that without extra-special hacks. > > How are these files called in the distributions of DOS and Windows > > ports (`:' is invalid on Windows as well)? > I think they simply don't include man versions (IIRC, ActiveState > includes html'ed pod files). But that doesn't really solve the problem, does it? The *.pod and HTML files still have the same `:' characters in them, like in "Pod::Parser.html", no? > I guess 'man' is not used that much in a GUI environment. Really? DJ, is that true for the Cygwin port of Perl as well? That is, does it discourage the use of Perl man pages?