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- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 94 11:05:17 MST
- From: shenson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Stephen Henson)
- Message-Id: <9401151805.AA20851@nyx10.cs.du.edu>
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- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- Subject: Re: Filesystem compatability ...
-
- Well runtime support is best added to the program, not the library. For example
- two filenames would be kept, one for DOS 8+3 and another when no restrictions
- are present. If MiNT is not running then you'll only get 8+3 anyway.
- I'll give a brief example of binary configuration in a while; this
- is perhaps the best solution for things like .shellrc shell.rc, where the
- binary gets it's values edited. This has the advantage that source need not
- be distributed and saves clogging up the environment with filenames which
- may only be used by one or two programs.
- Steve.
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