Re: [Freedos-devel] Joke of the day: lb040501.zip !?

2004-05-09 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eric, Hi, I got an urgent request well - really urgent ;) The claim is that (paraphrasing) having to use a web browser to download non-8.3-filename and save it as 8.3 filename on disk would be contradictory to GPL. a) the claim is 100% bullshit. b) but is a good reason to switch to a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Joke of the day: lb040501.zip !?

2004-05-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 8 May 2004 22:37:50 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, I got busy because need to remove Netsky and Sassar in customer's PC. Luckily FreeDOS is safe from this. If you are REALLY downloading my software under DOS, and your browser is unable to process non-8.3 URLs, let me know. Doh. The

[Freedos-devel] Joke of the day: lb040501.zip !?

2004-05-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I got an urgent request to make my homepage 8.3 name compatible. So I would have to upload lbacache-01may2004.zip as lb040501.zip (which is YYMMDD order, nice for sorting but completely unreadable to normal Germans). The claim is that (paraphrasing) having to use a web browser to download