X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["592" "Fri" "14" "July" "1995" "14:41:05" "-0300" "David Carlisle" "carlisle@CS.MAN.AC.UK" nil "14" "Re: The naming of LaTeX files" "^Date:" nil nil "7" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (vzdmzf.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.6]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA14004 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 19:28:27 +0200 Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V4.3-12 #4432) id <01HSV6FU3UJ49BVGB4@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:48:53 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de by MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE (PMDF V4.3-12 #4432) id <01HSV6FNW79C8WW5R2@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:48:48 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v0.1a) with SMTP id C4530646 ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:48:45 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 0768 for LATEX-L@VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:42:31 +0000 Received: from DHDURZ1 (NJE origin SMTP@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1522; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:41:17 +0000 Received: from m1.cs.man.ac.uk by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Fri, 14 Jul 95 15:41:16 CET Received: from r8h.cs.man.ac.uk by m1.cs.man.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1:AL5l) id AA07420; Fri, 14 Jul 95 14:41:08 BST In-reply-to: <950714141604.20c14715@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk> (message from Philip Taylor on Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:16:04 +0100) Reply-to: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Message-id: <9507141341.AA05659@r8h.cs.man.ac.uk> X-Envelope-to: schoepf@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 14:41:05 -0300 (BST) From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: The naming of LaTeX files Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1690 > Can it then be called `longtabl.sty', or `longtble.sty'? If it can, > then an MS/DOS user using 8.3 or 5+3.3 mapping will be unable to > differentiate it from the original... Well if the advertised way of loading that package was \usepackage{longtabl} then anyone who used that form and ended up with my version due to name truncation would get a warning from LaTeX. And similarly anyone who puts \usepackage{longtable} and ended up with a file that had a \ProvidePackage{longtabl} command would get a warning. (But Phil wouldn't know this as he still uses `The Basic Macros' :-) David