R devel - Aug 1997 - R-alpha: Re: Extensions .R and .Rd (in base/funs/ and base/man/ )

Whatever extensions are decided on for any of the R stuff it is important
to realize that Windows (3.11) only lets you have one dot (.) and then
only 3 characters. The base name should be only 8 characters long as well.
Since I'm worrying about it a little these days I just want to put my 2
cents
worth in on this topic.

It is looking like a real pain to translate the current set of html files to
this format which means that there is going to be some real work required in
getting a 3.11 version going.

On a related note I really have started on the RSept and have postscript
functioning (once again big changes will be needed to get it to fly under
3.11 so it'll be a Win95 version first).

Getting dll's going is the next trick I'm going to try.

robert
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Robert Gentleman <rgentlem@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> Whatever extensions are decided on for any of the R stuff it is important
> to realize that Windows (3.11) only lets you have one dot (.) and then
> only 3 characters. The base name should be only 8 characters long as well.
> Since I'm worrying about it a little these days I just want to put my 2
cents
> worth in on this topic.
> 
> It is looking like a real pain to translate the current set of html files
to
> this format which means that there is going to be some real work required
in
> getting a 3.11 version going.
Is it possible that the HTML->RTF->WinHelp generation pointer I sent
you would work faster? Point being that you could generate the RTF
file on a machine with long filenames yielding a file with *internal"
links, no restrictions on names, and in turn a .HLP file - which we
want to have anyway.

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