RE: Manual additions (DOS issues)

[Tim Van Holder]

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Akim Demaille
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:43
To: Tim Van Holder
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Subject: Re: Manual additions (DOS issues)


"Tim Van Holder" <address@hidden> writes:

> OK - here goes.  I've listed '[\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*' as the canonical
> absolute path test; I'll submit patches to use this throughout autoconf
> later.

Plenty of thanks!

> address@hidden @bullet

@bullets are atrocious!  We use @minus.

> address@hidden No multiple address@hidden

I removed the @*, AFAIK it's useless here, and anyway it is
inconsistent with the rest of the doc.

> +DOS cannot handle multiple dots in filenames.  This is an especially
important

> We promote @sc{dos}.





Thanks a _lot_ for your submission!