Re: building files with nasm (#2)

[Johan Holmberg]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Steven Knight wrote:
>
> Yikes!  The suffix logic to decide between WIN32 and non-WIN32 is
> completely backwards.  The intent is that Cons is supposed to know that
> a WIN32 system can only have three-character suffixes, but an errant "!"
> is making it enforce the three-character limit on *non*-WIN32 systems.
>

Why not remove any 8+3 logic from Cons altogether  ?
Isn't that something left over from the dark ages before Windows95 ?
NT can definitely handle longer suffixes.

And even if a platform couldn't handle long extensions,
why should "cons" enforce it ?
(not even Microsofts NMAKE does that ;-)

/johan holmberg