Re: need util to read long PC filenames

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From: Hugh Stafford
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:00

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Try using ZIP/Stuffit to protect your docs during transfer, that has
worked
for me.  One small bug sometimes, when decompressed on PC side,
sometimes
it creates the datafork as a sep file, so open the larger of the 2 files
you get out of that process.

Regards
Hugh

Andy Armstrong wrote:

> In article <1d57j0f.1jvvi3572jtcaN@[10.0.2.15]>, "Michael F. Tomkins"
> <michael@narcosis.apana.org.au> writes
>
> >That is because that is what is recorded on the disk, win95 really has
> >only 8 char filenames, it just uses a trick to interpreate them as
> >longer in the graphical part by using a lookup table.
>
> Actually it stores the 8.3 name in a normal FAT style directory entry
> and the long name in subsequent 'special' directory entries. Both names
> are therefore recorded in the directory: the legacy 8.3 name for
> backwards compatibility and the long name.
>
> --
> http://www.wonderworks.co.uk --> Free RISC OS software
> Andy Armstrong, WonderWorks



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From: Hugh Stafford <hstaffordDD@hologic.com>
Subject: Re: need util to read long PC filenames
Date: 1998/03/18
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