[tex-live] 8.3 file name restrictions

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Wed Sep 13 16:31:57 CEST 2006


Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> There is a looong list of files on TeXLive which can't be properly
> handled on MS-DOS (just run doschk) -- I don't talk about compressed
> docs but TFM files and the like.  IIRC, there are similar file name
> restrictions on CD-ROMs which don't run extensions like Joliet or Rock
> Ridge -- is this a problem?
>   
its  been this way since forever, so I'd say
"no" :-}

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