-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Akim Demaille
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:43
To: Tim Van Holder
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Manual additions (DOS issues)
"Tim Van Holder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK - here goes. I've listed '[\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*' as the canonical
> absolute path test; I'll submit patches to use this throughout autoconf
> later.
Plenty of thanks!
> +@itemize @bullet
@bullets are atrocious! We use @minus.
> +@item No multiple dots@*
I removed the @*, AFAIK it's useless here, and anyway it is
inconsistent with the rest of the doc.
> +DOS cannot handle multiple dots in filenames. This is an especially
important
> We promote @sc{dos}.
Thanks a _lot_ for your submission!