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Re: convert-standard-filename


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: convert-standard-filename
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:22:25 +0200

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 18:18, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> How 'bout a file-name-equal, which could also try to account for
>> case-sensitivity?
>
> He-he, I was arguing for years that file names are not strings and
> cannot be compared as strings.  Finally I have someone who agrees ;-)
>
> There's also the case of 8+3 aliases of long file names on Windows, we
> bumped into that some time ago (the value of temporary-file-directory
> on Windows uses the 8+3 alias, because that's how Windows sets up the
> environment variable).

You are not alone.



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