Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 20:53:38 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-uk-users <freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions Message-ID: <368FD8D2.958F9739@uk.radan.com> References: <v03110702b2b461a36d91@[195.21.247.88]>
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Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 14:28 +0100 02.01.1999, Mark Ovens wrote on freebsd-chat: > > >The driver, whilst working fine, is somewhat inconsistent in it's > >use of long and short (8.3) filenames, e.g. ls on my system lists > >both ``PROGRA~1'' and ``Program Files'' in the (NTFS) root dir. I > >can ``cd'' to either and the ``pwd'' returns ``/ntfs/Program Files'' > >in both cases. > > Isn't this exactly how it should be? Thinking in Unix terms, both the > long and the short name are links to the same object, so if you cd to > a directory you end up in the same directory regardless which link you > use. Other than a Unix directory, though, it has not a single name, > but two, but you want to know the long name. > But the long and short names aren't _really_ links, there just a quick and _very_ dirty fix to allow M$ to persist woth their absession with providing backward compatibility with old 16-bit world. I had an e-mail from Semen to say that long filenames only are now the default andoptions have been added to allow both to be displayed (-a) and to make it case-insensitive (-i). <rant> How the hell can you have a filesystem that retains case but is case-insensitive??? </rant> > Greetings, Juergen. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use <http://www.pgpi.com>; > > iQA/AwUBNo6yrvxneYZkCUPbEQJMcQCg70n4oZl7Gvs58Bf5Kghw9bpYqPUAn2Ra > AwHE1CD1LegNYV1E2EnYIwIS > =n953 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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