Re: LYNX-DEV Temporary file names

[Doug Kaufman]

On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Victor Schneider wrote:

> that work just fine as helper apps for lynx.exe.  Only problem is that you
> stick the process ID onto the names of TEMP files, which breaks the (8,3)
> file model for 16-bit apps.  I've gone through your code to remove getpid,
> but a more elegant approach would be to remove getpid entirely, as a relic
> of earlier times.

I already submitted patches that will make temporary names fit into 8+3.
I believe Klaus has just put them in the latest release. This allows 5
characters for the pid and 3 characters for the index, thus allowing
only 999 temporary files per session.
  
> You might also get rid of the `.jpe' suffix, since noone uses it any more,
> and `.jpg' or `.jpeg' are the only remaining suffixes for jpegs.

I think that .jpe appears when a unix file with ".jpeg" gets truncated
by DOS to a 3 character suffix.

                                   Doug
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