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Re: Filename change to fit the "only one dot" limitation on DOS


Excerpts from mail: 14-Mar-99 Filename change to fit the .. Robert
Hoehne@gmx.net (7475*)

> -YYFILES = c-exp.tab.c \
>> +YYFILES = c-exp_tab.c \

To take the opposite viewpoint, why are we suddenly about to go to such
efforts to accommodate 8.3 DOS file names?

I think it would instead be better to provide a separate configury
script (sed+sh?) that ran over the build directory and adjusted things
ready for a DOS build?

	enjoy,
		Andrew