On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:48:36 -0500 (EST), Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2004-01-07T06:45-0500, Eric Sunshine wrote: > ) I suppose that nobody has complained about the fact that > ) "config.status.lineno" is incompatible with the DOS 8.3 naming > ) restriction? > Neither is "config.status", nor "configure", for that matter. Nevertheless, DOS will silently truncate those to "config.sta" and "configur", both of which are still valid filenames. However, the second period in "config.status.lineno" is simply incompatible with DOS naming convention which allows only a single period. -- ES