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From: ne201ph@prism.gatech.EDU (Halvorson,Peter J)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: eplain 1.8 released
Message-ID: <24391@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 91 03:55:41 GMT
References: <9103141752.AA26792@ra.cs.umb.edu> <65334@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <65334@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>I can not speak too much good about eplain, but one thing that 
>TeX authors often forget/not take into account is the portability of
>filenames. 
>
>For example, MSDOS will not accept filename like ``eplain.info''.
>
>Yes, one can rename the filenames and change the \input lines, etc.
>But I don't think it takes any effort for authors to take this into
>consideration. 12345678.123 is a perfect name for most operating 
>systems.
>-- 
>xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnet

What about CDC mainframes?  They don't allow . in a file name, it is 
reserved for the cycle number ( sad but true).
 
The CDC's are almost dead at Georgia Tech, and I'd just as soon see something
better replace MSDOS as well.


              Peter Halvorson   --    Nuclear Engineering Program
          Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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