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From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de>
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:32:34 +0200
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 21:17, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> > > Yes, why?  Juan, could you please tell what problems prevent it from
> > > building on plain DOS 8+3 filesystems?
> > >
> > > TIA
> >
> > There are two file name types that resolve to the same dos 8.3 file names.
> > INTTYPES.M4    : texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes-pri.m4
> >                   texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes.m4
> >                   texinfo-4.7.91/m4/inttypes_h.m4
> > ONCEONLY.M4    : texinfo-4.7.91/m4/onceonly.m4
> >                      texinfo-4.7.91/m4/onceonly_2_57.m4
> 
> I haven't tested, but I'm afraid, that this will cause problems also on LFN 
> system, when name numeric tails are disabled. Perhaps several of these
> files will be lost also when unpacking source archive.
> 
> I myself don't disable name numeric tails already for a long time, after I got 
> some file acidentially overwritten. Also at some package which I use have
> huge number of such DOS 8+3 filename conflicts (for example GSL)
> 
> Andris

Yes this is true. I always use Win98 with numeric tails disabled and the extrction
fails. I have not mention this because I have assumed that no one is using Win98
anymore and that numeric tails can not be disabled on Win2K and WinXP.

Anyway, I had fixed this for the txi47[bds].zip port already but never submitted to
the texinfo people andnow it must be decided how this issue should be handled.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero