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Re: newsticker-*.el files
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Leo |
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Re: newsticker-*.el files |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:44:57 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2008-06-08 23:01 +0100, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The newly installed newsticker-*.el files cause file-name clashes on
> > 8+3 (a.k.a. DOS) filesystems. Can we rename them in a way that avoids
> > such clashes? All that is needed that the first 8 characters of the
> > basename be different; as long as they are, there's no problem for the
> > basename itself to be longer than 8 characters.
>
> The DOS port currently does not work, it has been approved for removal,
> and you said that it might never be revived.
>
> Why do this work now, when it's highly possible that the uglyfied names
> might never be needed?
>
> Why not do the renaming work at the time when the DOS platform is
> brought back to life?
This sounds quite sensible. Anyone out there uses Emacs 23 under dos?
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- newsticker-*.el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/08
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Dan Nicolaescu, 2008/06/08
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/06/08
- Re: newsticker-*.el files,
Leo <=
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, David Kastrup, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, dhruva, 2008/06/09
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/10
- Re: newsticker-*.el files, Richard M Stallman, 2008/06/09