On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:06:36 +0000, Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton wrote:
> From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Petri wrote:
>> To get LFN we need to recompile wwwman under a diffrent compiler (or
>> with other libraries). The easiest way to do this is IMHO to use DJGPP.
> IMHO there is one good reason to get long FNs: that is to offer access to
> local HTML pages with long file names. Suppose for instance that you
> bought a encyclopedia or some other multimedia title written in HTML. You
> try to read it with Arachne, and... It would all work except for one
> thing: the links use long file names and so they are invalid. I don't
> care about LFNs in wwwman. But I'm more concerned invalid links in local
> HTML files. Does that mean we'd have to recompile core.exe?
>> Those who want to try and understand it on their own can look in mime.cfg
>> //Bernie
> Thanks Bernie, that was very useful.
BTW, I frequently see the tilde symbol (i.e. "~"), in the name of some
URLs. The tilde symbol is used in DOS to substitute for some characters
in long file names in Windoze.
If an HTML file in a URL were to have a long file name, could a DOS user
simply use a tilde to substitute for characters?
Sam Heywood
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Alternative WWW Browser
