Friday, October 25, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote:
Are there Omega implementations for DOS?
OW> Last time I checked, it compiled successfully using djgpp. Actually, OW> Eli Zaretskii spent a lot of time making the web2c stuff configure and OW> compile cleanly under djgpp. While some of the supporting files have OW> not been updated recently, getting it to compile again should be OW> comparatively easy. OW> It simply truncates extensions to three characters. In this case these such implementations could "system-dependently" change the format extension (instead of truncating, removing the "m", for example).
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.
OW> IIRC, ISO CDOM format also privileges .3 filenames; look at the OW> various compatibility levels. Hm. I'm starting to think that Hans Hagen idea to put each format under a separate subfolder of the \fmt directory is not that bad ... could be pass the suggestion on to the TDS committee? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta