Re: 8+3-filesystem support

2004-09-06 Thread Dr. Torsten Rupp
Dear Mark, Agreed. Could you supply a patch that cleans up the current code to separate the 8.3 thing and the file separator thing to explicitly mention something like fileSystem8_3 and introduces a system property that the runtime should set when such a file system is set? Attached to this email

RE: 8+3-filesystem support

2004-09-06 Thread Jeroen Frijters
Dr. Torsten Rupp wrote: Attached to this email there is a patch. Please try it. It is still not a nice implementation, because I still did not removed the backslash-tests to keep it compatible with the current implementation in Classpath. If everybody agree it would be a nice idea to

8+3-filesystem support

2004-09-01 Thread Dr. Torsten Rupp
Dear Classpath members, some time ago there was a discussion how to support systems with a filesystem which are limited to 8+3-filenames (e. g. DOS-filesystem). Not so long ago there were also some messages concerning this and the introduction of a constant like ON_WINDOWS or isWin32. Now I