Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:09:27 +0200
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> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:50:25 -0500
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
> 
> It would not be hard to change the name to use directories (in fact, 
> that part is trivial), but the name would then have to be parsed to 
> find out what new directories to create and to create them before 
> writing the man file.

The real problem with this is that it breaks the standard man
directory hierarchy.

> In summary, it may well be that there will *never* be an 8.3-safe build 
> available for perl on DJGPP.  In which case, the "::" ==> "__" choice I 
> made is the simplest solution (though changing it to a single "_" would 
> probably be accepted without any complaints).

I'd still like to know what does the Windows port of Perl do with
these names.  Can someone find out?

> Eli, would it be too intrusive to add a "special case" to the man clone 
> to check for "::" in the requested page name and automagically convert 
> it to "__"?

It's not hard.  `man' already does some extra-special hacks to support
8+3 filesystem seamlessly (did you ask yourself what happens when you
type "man install-info" on DOS? wildcard expansion doesn't truncate
the name to 8+3, you know, so how does `man' find `install-.1'?..)