Giuseppe Bilotta writes:
Thursday, October 24, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote:
since it's efmt and nfmt, wouldn't consistency call for pfmt, ofmt, eofmt, pefmt ?
Yes, but thanks to the immense success of 8+3 filenames, they could end up being truncated to pfm, ofm, eof, pef respectively. ofm is known to collide with another suffix.
Are there Omega implementations for DOS?
Last time I checked, it compiled successfully using djgpp. Actually, Eli Zaretskii spent a lot of time making the web2c stuff configure and compile cleanly under djgpp. While some of the supporting files have not been updated recently, getting it to compile again should be comparatively easy. It simply truncates extensions to three characters.
I mean, I think we should stop worrying about this. If an DOS implementation is indeed done, they can change it with no big problems.
IIRC, ISO CDOM format also privileges .3 filenames; look at the various compatibility levels. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)