From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c019ad9cc913bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-18 18:39:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-out.newsfeeds.com!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!usc.edu!newspeer.cts.com!galanthis.cts.com!127.0.0.1.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Sender: kst@king.cts.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The Dreaded "Missing Subunits" References: <1b585154.0209121449.ef12609@posting.google.com> <3D819EE7.3A69E5EB@praxis-cs.co.uk> From: Keith Thompson Date: 18 Sep 2002 18:39:44 -0700 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.68.192.180 X-Trace: 1032399585 nntp.cts.com 51676 209.68.192.180 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29146 Date: 2002-09-18T18:39:44-07:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > Stephen Leake writes: > > Robert A Duff writes: > > > (I must admit, that wasn't easy in the days when operating systems > > > had unreasonable limits on file names (like only one dot, or only 8 > > > characters). Are those bad-old-days over?) > > > > I hope they are over. But we are stuck with their legacy; all of the > > GNAT compiler source files are krunched to 8.3 names. > > Yeah, I find that annoying. And eminently fixable, if the ACT folks care to do it. In the meantime, it shouldn't be too difficult to run a script over the source directories that creates symbolic links with the full names. (Yes, I'm assuming a Unix-like environment.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"