Thu 2003-07-31 04:06, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615) wrote to all:

 RJT> Just wondering,  are there any plands to make max/squish able to
 RJT> deal with other than 8.3 filenames in the future?  Maybe under
 RJT> linux?

I think the OS/2 & Win32 (NT) versions of Maximus + Squish can already
handle LFNs to a certain extent, on HPFS and NTFS partitions respectively. 
There may be problems with filenames with spaces in them though, eg. in the
configuration file and command-line parsing routines.  The Linux/BSD
version should have basically whatever limitations the OS/2 & NT
versions have in this regard.

Of particular note is the FILES.BBS format which basically excludes
describing files with spaces in them because the first space encountered is
treated as a separator.  There may be a way of working around this if
support for double quotes was provided.  This same concept used by C
compiler libraries that tokenise a single string (from the environment)
into multiple strings (argv) while honouring strings in double quotes.  You
could then have a FILES.BBS in the format:

"Hello world.zip" This is the description for the Hello world archive.
hello.txt         Hello world.
"anotherfile.txt" Another file.

This functionality could extend to other places, eg. selecting multiple
files to download:

Add file(s) to batch (return to end): "Hello world.zip" hello.txt
Add file(s) to batch (return to end):

(or similar)

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