Hi Michael,
thanks for the new naming system. I aprove, I like it. After all this is FreeDOS and it happens to be 8.3 ;-)
I often work in plain DOS, ant it is in fact annoying to have the strange ~ names. As for the date stamps, thei get lost when saving the download.
Just to let you know that *someone* is happy :))
Alain
Michael Devore escreveu:
At 11:27 AM 12/8/2004 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files > emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 > mostly source package.
> These versions follow the latest EMM386 fileset template directory and > naming conventions.
Thanks for the template directory part, but I think trying to keep the URL
in 8.3 naming convention will only have the result that people who look
for emm386 will no longer imagine that emmx could be what they want.
You could upload as emm386x-13b.zip and people can save the downloaded file to emm386x.zip, then everybody should be happy.
This is an excellent example of why I originally wanted nothing to do with the administrative side of EMM386 and HIMEM. After three iterations of changing directories and names, few people appear any the happier about it than they were originally.
With non-8.3 naming convention, downloaders using native DOS applications to grab the files need directions with the atrocious beginning "The file will either immediately rename prompt or download into a weird ~ extended name but you can rename it into a better one afterwards". Even forced renames after non-DOS OS download is an avoidable annoyance.
I will here venture a plain personal opinion on non-8.3. filenames for DOS-only downloads: they are stupid. Automatically requiring a rename of any download to be compatible with the operating system the files are explicitly written for is stupid.
Bottom line fact is that DOS is an 8.3 named operating system, and LFN's aren't natively supported. No one else that I looked at for FreeDOS base or utility files uses non-8.3 filenames. Get around 75% compliance on date-embedded non-8.3 filenames and then we can talk. Personally, I think looking at the datestamp is sufficient (what else is it for?) and a single emm386.zip file should work, especially if older version files are aged out to archival branching directories or simply renamed, but nobody else liked that idea.
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