root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> > You need to clean up the files in that repository directory, so that
>> > the directory can happily exist on win32.    Either have a unix person
>> > delete redundant files (are POLY.pht and poly.pht identical?), or
>> > rename them.
>> 
>> Tim, can this be done without breaking something on Axiom? The two
>> files appear to be different.
>
> i'll look into this.
>
> the name restriction is tighter than this, actually.
> in order to make a vaild CD verison of any system 
> the naming conventions require things such as 
> one '.' per name, all lower case, less than a small
> number of characters, etc. we should probably 
> conform to those restrictions.
I'm fairly sure that the restrictions aren't that tight anymore, at
least for CDs/DVDs. Most operating systems support either the Joliet
or the RockRidge scheme. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_(file_system) 

and

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockridge

for details.

Kai


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