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Hello.

Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> > Jim Meyering wrote:
> ...
> >> I'm not too keen on mangling anything -- even temp-file names in test
> >> scripts -- to accommodate DOS's brain-dead 8.3 limitation.  Of course,
> >> if you find a clean way to fix all this without mangling things, I'll
> >> be a lot more receptive.
> > [snip]
> >
> > How about doing the tests in subdirectories named after the tests? E.g.:
> > backup-file.tmp. Then the prefix wouldn't matter so much, since it's clear
> 
> That sounds like a good approach.  Thanks!
> I've just updated my template to be like this:
> 
>   tmp=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp
> 
> and will update all of the individual tests later.

Just to be clear:

Would you allow the test files to be created with 8+3-compliant names in these
subdirectories (e.g.: aaaXXXXX, aaa = prefix, XXXXX = $$)? I'm quite happy to
submit a patch against the next fileutils release to do this. Would I need to
assign copyright to the FSF for such a small change? (I have a copyright
disclaimer for my contributions to DJGPP, so I could probably get my employer
to do this.)

Also, do you plan to rename some of the test scripts as I suggested (e.g.:
skip-seek2 -> skpseek2, no-deref-link-2 -> nderefl2)?

A combination of thes two would be great. I understand that you don't like the
8+3 limitations, but I don't think you'd lose much in renaming the test
scripts to have 8 characters.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]