BUG: 16-bit setup.exe issues [Virus checked by FIDUCIA]

Samuel Liddicott sam at campbellsci.co.uk
Tue Sep 21 07:49:05 GMT 1999



> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> tschweikle at FIDUCIA.de
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 09:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: Re: BUG: 16-bit setup.exe issues [Virus checked by FIDUCIA]
>
> switching mangled names off gives a more straightforward behavior:
> 'LinuxInst' will become 'LINUXINS.T' for dos (no dot). 'bones_tar.Z'
> will become 'BONES_TA.Z' ('bones_tar.Z' has a dot).

Can't the mangled character be changed to one historically more acceptable
for cases like this?
Given that ~ has to cope for when ~ is actually part of the filename, surely
then perhaps _ would be a good legal replacement?

Sam



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