Re: [Bug binutils/637] man 1 c++filt footnote 1 is confused

[Nick Clifton]

Hi err, timeless,

> i hate to ask, but when you say MS-DOS, what do you actually mean?

I had meant "any toolchain that is built to run on an MS-DOS system".

> Does it include windows nt? 

As a *host* for a toolchain that produces binaries that should run under 
MS-DOS, then the answer would be "yes".

> Under NT, things can be case sensitive, so if i told someone
> CXXFILT and they were using a case sensitive system (either because they used
> cygwin shell, or because they really liked running in the posix shell) then
> things wouldn't work....

True, but the actual text of the (patched) footnote is:

   MS-DOS does not allow + characters in file names, so on
   MS-DOS this program is named CXXFILT.

So the footnote is specific to running the command under MS-DOS.  If the 
cxxfilt command has been built to run on an NT *host* (but to demangle 
binaries produced for an MS-DOS *target*) then the footnote does not 
apply and the command's name, as specified throughout the rest of the 
man page, will be "c++filt".

Cheers
  Nick