Re: files with funny names

[Bruno Haible]

Aharon Robbins writes:

> In particular, my VMS porter notes about these files:
> 
> >>>   po/address@hidden
> >>>   po/address@hidden

You can drop these two files, together with po/Rules-quot, if your
po/LINGUAS files doesn't contain "address@hidden" or "address@hidden".

> > (Actually, even if there was only one tar reader, someone using NFS for
> > accessing the sources directly off a Unix box would almost certainly
> > see different altered names.)

People can use the ODS-5 file system on VMS; it is more liberal on
filename syntax. See
http://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/V73/6536/6536pro_contents.html

> >>>   po/Makefile.in.in
> 
> That there are three different tar readers for VMS that do different
> things with these files.

The VMS porter can hack these filenames like the DJGPP porter does it
for gettext. (See gettext/djgpp/*).

> Is it possible to stick to names that use a-z, 0-9, dash and underscore?
> Also a single period?  Makefile.in.in could just as easily be Makefile_in.in,
> for example.

Given that VMS ODS-5 already has support for such filenames like
Makefile.in.in, I don't see the point of going backward in time.

Bruno