Re: [AD] Hashes bite back

["Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Allegro's magic `#' in filenames prevents anything with hashes in
> the filename to be loaded.  AFAIK this doesn't affect DOS/Windows
> because these characters are disallowed in file names.  It is a
> problem under Linux.

Is it really a problem? One of Allegro's primary goals is to be portable, so
one could argue that you shouldn't be trying to load a file with such a
filename with Allegro in the first place.

> Possible solution: add a new function which enables/disables the
> magical meaning of hashes in filenames, with the default behaviour
> being the current one.

Please, no more weird functions like this :-)

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Eric Botcazou