Den ons 9 dec. 2020 kl 09:20 skrev <[email protected]>: > The game battlestar has source files names com1.c through com7.c, which > are illegal on windows due to ancient dos com port rules. > > I understand there might not be much sympathy for that, but being able > to have the full source tree on a windows system can be convenient, and > it should be a painless change. > > Any chance someone could do that rename in the repository and change > the Makefile? >
MS-DOS file and device naming rules have been in effect since 5.25" floppies was a huge thing, if it hasn't been a huge problem for bsd source code in the last 30+ years, I hardly think it would be worth changing the filenames now. Windows will just have to grow up and get into this millennium. It's a paid-for product, so you can take it up with your support representative. The list of "forbidden" names for that OS is quite long and even if NTFS in itself allows them, windows does not. You can't ask all operating systems to adapt to the sum of limitations of all the surrounding operating systems, the list of useful things left if you do will be rather small. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
