From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 27 10:57:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCB537B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27003; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:57:24 -0700 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id KAA10849; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:57:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206271757.KAA10849@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: tomi.hasa@tut.fi Cc: wouter@pair.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tomi_H=E4s=E4?= on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:39:30 +0300 (EET DST)) Subject: Re: Readme for Windows Users Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Handbook in HTML.html > Handbook in HTML.zip > Handbook in HTML.tar > Handbook in PDF.pdf > Handbook in PDF.tar > Handbook in PDF.zip > Handbook in Text.tar > Handbook in Text.txt > Handbook in Text.zip Hmmm not a bad suggestion, though I think you will have to put up with the multi-extension thing. But ok, I think we have identified a place where confusion is caused, namely the deviation from the 8.3 name formats, specifically the use of multiple programs to archive, compress and whatnot, which creates a multi-extension. Long names are likely transparent to the win-people, more than one ext is not. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message