Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:6354 gnu.emacs:1135 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bionet!ames!pacbell!att!cbnewsh!ho5cad!wjc From: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp Archives -- organization Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 89 17:36:21 GMT References: <8906221943.AA10716@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: bill@cbnewsh.ATT.COM Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 In-reply-to: dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL's message of 22 Jun 89 19:43:30 GMT In article <8906221943.AA10716@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL writes: > One unresolved issue is how to name the archive files. In most cases, > I can simply use the author's name. Sometimes, however, the author > hasn't provided a name, or the name isn't unique, or the code consists > of modifications to a distributed package such as rmail. I reiterate my suggestion that authors provide 13-or-fewer-character names (including ".el") for these files. Although many users are on long filename systems (including osu-cis), many others are in the land of 14's. It may seem a pain to make the sacrifice, but it seems better than having to have half the population randomly renaming many of the files they use from the archive. -- Bill Carpenter att!ho5cad!wjc or attmail!bill