However I simply want:
1. A NSTemporaryDirectory() funtions which doesn't return 8.3 paths,
but real
cool nice and fancy long path names.
My question was 'why' ... that is what I don't understand.
Given that the NSTemporaryDirectory() is an internal location used for
temporary file storage, and your program must not depend on its value
other than as a place to store temporary files, I can see no reason
why it should return a path in a particular format. Now, if you are a
developer debugging your code and want to see where temporary files
are being stored by your program, you might want to look at the path,
but I would hope that the exact format of the path is pretty
irrelevant to anyone sufficiently technicaly minded to be doing that.
or if you think GNUstep should be 8.3 compatible
2. A method of NSString which converts 8.3 pathnames to long ones.
Again, 'why' ....windows provides one for you, and it would have no
use whatsoever outside of the windows environment, so adding it to
GNUstep would be useless bloat.