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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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