Re: WML port to Win32

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Michael McNamara wrote:

> Denis Barbier writes:
>  > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Lumachi Marco wrote:
>  > 
>  > > I am evaluating the porting WML on Windows 32 bit platform. Are there some
>  > > known reason and issue about this ?
>  > 
>  > Known reasons for doing what? Porting WML to Win32? Obviously none ;-)
>  > 
>  > More seriously, this should not be very hard, but i have absolutely no
>  > skill on this exotic platform. If you want to do this, will you have
>  > time to maintain it seriously (i.e. fix bugs, answer questions,...)?
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > Denis Barbier
>  > WML Maintainer
> 
> I tried, and the first problem is filenames.
> 
> win32 imposes some rather backward requirements, not allowing certain
> characters (i believe ':' was one of them) in file names.

But there is no colon in filenames. nor any other special character.

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer

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