[tex-live] 8.3 file name restrictions

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Wed Sep 13 17:28:02 CEST 2006


2006/9/13, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>:
> 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

I seriously doubt that 8.3 should be of any concern today. The only
filesytems for which this matters are
- FAT (DOS, which is long out of date),
- ISO 9660 level 1 (CDROM), for which various work-arounds exist, and
- ODS-? (RT-11/OpenVMS), for which newer versions exist.

Best
   Martin


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