From: Martin Stromberg Message-Id: <200211280826.JAA11739@lws256.lu.erisoft.se> Subject: Re: Updates to readme.1st for 2.04, revision 2 [PATCH] To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:26:53 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Richard Dawe" at Nov 27, 2002 05:17:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > +A 'long file name' or 'long directory name' has path components that > +are longer than 8 characters in the portion before the extension > +and longer than 3 characters in the extension. A long file name may > +also have multiple extensions and contain some characters that are > +invalid in short file names (e.g.: spaces). The point was that it won't take much more space to really list the invalid ones: "+,;=[]" which is six characters. Compare this with "e.g.: spaces" which is eleven. Plus I just remembered that spaces are valid in SFN! So at least that must be changed. Right, MartinS