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From:
David Golden
Date:
December 20, 2010 05:05
Subject:
Re: perldelta naming
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>> However, I'm not sure what the "new" portability maxim should be. I'd guess
>>
>> * At most one .
>> * No more than 39 characters before the dot, and 39 after
>> * No distinctions solely on case
>> * No filenames starting with -
>
> Also don't use any of these names (regardless of case) before the dot:
>
>  CON, PRN, AUX, NUL,
>  COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9,
>  LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9

Sounds like we a t/porting/filenames.t would be a useful double check
on these (and anything else)

-- David

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