On 11/4/07, Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Roche has submitted a revised version of a patch to modify the > unique-name-finding algorithm to generate names in the pattern > "foo-n.html" rather than "foo.html.n". The patch looks good, and will > likely go in very soon.
That's something I had meant to submit a bug report for a while back, but somehow never found the time to do it. I guess it wasn't my top priority since GNU/Linux is usually smart enough to ignore the file extensions anyways. > A couple of minor detail questions: what do you guys think about using > "foo.n.html" instead of "foo-n.html"? And (this one to Gisle), how would > this naming convention affect DOS (and, BTW, how does the current one > hold up on DOS)? Well, this problem is mainly for win32 users, so I think we need to keep sloppy coding in mind. It's been my experience that *man* win32 programs will treat everything after the first period as the file extension. Honestly, I don't see any reason to risk the annoyance of these kinds of bugs. Just go with the dash. (On a side note, have you thought of running FreeDOS in a virtual machine?)
