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Article #12096Re: Is Chicago really stand-alone?
From: Matt McLeod
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 12:54
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 12:54
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Craig.Procter@DSTO.Defence.Gov.Au writes: >hmm Ive heard the betas were out for DOS 7, and was hoping it would support >long filenames, but what do you mean 'in an undocumented way'? I'm used to >unix and amiga long filenames.. and was hoping that under DOS 7 I could >mount some of my Amiga CDROMs full of Pd for my bbs.. any ideas if this'll >work or not? Many thanks.. Unlikely. It uses extra directory entries to make up the long name. So, you have a directory entry with the short name in it, followed by a bunch more with the parts of the long name in it. it does seem to work, and I haven't had it mangle the disk on me, but it's hardly as elegant as ext2fs or HPFS... Matt -- You might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment...
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