From: Outsider Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Why the deception? Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 22:17:47 +0200 Organization: 'From' address is nonvalid, use 'Reply-To' address for email Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3ADDF66B.8FFF8517@yahoo.com> References: <3ADDEDBF DOT A0A004BF AT yahoo DOT com> <200104181951 DOT PAA02208 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: port5.dbc-khk.dsl.cybercity.dk (212.242.128.145) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 987625126 10325985 212.242.128.145 (16 [55309]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win16; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > > > Below are the file lists I got from the zip picker page for > > MS-DOS. They are filled with illegal file names, to wit: > > > > bin/addr2line.exe > > info/binutils.info > > info/gasp.info > > info/gprof.info > > bin/unprotoize.exe > > lang/cxx/algorithm > > lang/cxx/builtinbuf > > lang/cxx/indstream > > lang/cxx/stlhashmap > > None of these are illegal on DOS. DOS will gladly create files when > asked to using these names, and quietly chop off the characters it > won't support. Nothing wrong with that; it's intentional. DJGPP zip > files offer the full name for DOS machines supporting the long file > name standard (like, DOS with LFNDOS installed), so that *if* the full > name can be preserved, it will be, else programs ported from Unix will > be confused. > > > How about ANSI/ISO C++ for DOS, where is it? > > How about ANSI/ISO C++ for Win3.1x, where is it? > > DJGPP followed the ANSI/ISO specs as closely as GCC does. We're not Great. > GCC engineers. If you have a problem with GCC's compliance to > standards, you'll need to take it up on the GCC list. I strongly That was not my suggestion. > suggest you find out if gcc already follows the standards before > accusing them of anything, though. I suspect it already does. Oh. Sorry, I've had a really bad day. I just unzipped them and it went ok. -- MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Netscape Navigator 4.08