Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 10:46:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: e8917523@linf.unb.br Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: iname() Message-ID: <199609101746.KAA03079@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9609100135.AA0141@DANIEL.sobral> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at Sep 10, 96 04:35:53 am
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> > > This fails for VFAT/VFAT32/HPFS/NTFS, all of which have "long names" > > > and 8.3 names for each file. For the Mac FS, it fails because of the > > Err... This does not seem to be the case for HPFS. At least, OS/2 > makes names that don't fall into 8.3 convention invisible to DOS > sessions and can't even copy those files to FAT (you have to provide > a new, acceptable, name). Of course, not knowing the internals of > OS/2, it may be just that IBM is too stupid to provide a useful > resource already coded into the system available to its users... :-) It is a limitation of the broswer and the INT 21 supporting code, not an inherent limitation of the HPFS itself. Sorry I didn't make this clear. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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