[Harbour] How can create a library with hbmk2?

[Szakáts Viktor]

>>>
>> Thanks. I did some more tests and even 'dir' command works like this,
>> and common things like file open dialog, so I'm not really sure what
>
> Exactly. It has to if I'm right and the above DIR behavior confirms
> that I'm. For each file with extension longer then 3 characters  
> Windows
> create alias in 8.3 form using as extension 1-st three characters from
> original extension and such aliases are respected by directory scan
> functions.
>
>> we're dealing with here. Maybe this is something normal on Windows
>> which we have to get used to. For sure it makes it behave differently
>> than other platforms. Plus I'm not sure how *.??? masks should be
>> handled (seems that in this case '???' counts as '*').
>> Any input from other Windows users?
>
> It's not important what type of wildcards you will use.
> It's only important how looks 8.3 bytes alias crated for long file  
> name
> because such aliases are significant for directory scan functions.
> AFAIR Windows7 allows to disable creating aliases for chosen volumes  
> and
> probably it will eliminate such effect.

Okay, I'd say let's leave it at that. I'm thinking to
remove this hack from hbmk2, as I've found that by renaming
.prg to .prg.ext it can still be excluded from *.prg
mask. This is a realistic compromise.

Many thanks for your input.

Brgds,
Viktor