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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:50:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        pedrosal@nce.ufrj.br (Pedro Salenbauch)
Subject:   Re: Long File Names
Message-ID:  <199602230850.JAA02879@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <9602230000.AA02209@vidigal.nce.ufrj.br> from "Pedro Salenbauch" at Feb 22, 96 09:00:41 pm

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As Pedro Salenbauch wrote:

> I am working on TROPIX (a real time UNIX like Operating System),
> which already can mount DOS File Systems. At present I am trying
> to process the "Long File Names" from the "Windows 95".
> 
> It is begining to work, but I stumbled over a little problem -
> I don't know how to calculate the "checksum" of the LFNs
> (byte 13 of the entry).
> 
> Do you know? I thank you for every help.

Sorry, we don't support Winglows 95 long file names (yet).  Given the
rather miserable shape of our MS-DOS file system support, i doubt it
will come soon.

We've got a file system ourselves, that supports 255 character file
names, ya'know.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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