From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa/doc] Updates to gdbint.texinfo
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 13:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B3CE912.6C4218C3@apple.com>
References: <3B3CC68E.3040504@cygnus.com> <1483-Fri29Jun2001221859+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20010629164232.A8545@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00541.html

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:18:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> + @subsection File Names
> >> +
> >> + Any file that is used to build @value{GDBN} on either DJGPP or Cygwin
> >> + must be 8.3 compliant.
> >
> >I suggest to add here that file names which match but for the letter
> >case will make trouble on DOS and Windows, even if long file names are
> >supported.
> 
> Right.  Also the 8.3 rule is just for DJGPP.  Cygwin/Windows has no
> problem with longer filenames.

Differs-only-in-case names also make trouble on Mac OS 9/X, if
the filesystem has been configured to be HFS (the usual situation)
instead of UFS.

Stan