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Started by berger
Tue, 16 Sep 1986 16:15
Long File Names under MS-DOS?
Author: berger
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1986 16:15
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1986 16:15
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Is there a way to tell MS-DOS to allow file names that are greater
than 8 characters long?
Thanks in adavance,
Bob Berger
Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644
ihnp4!datacube!berger
{seismo,cbosgd,cuae2,mit-eddie}!mirror!datacube!berger
Re: Long File Names under MS-DOS?
Author: John R. Levine
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1986 14:12
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1986 14:12
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In article <44600005@datacube> berger@datacube.UUCP writes:
>Is there a way to tell MS-DOS to allow file names that are greater
>than 8 characters long?
No. (That was easy, wasn't it?) The 8+3 name convention is buried deep
within the operating system, and the disk formats are designed around it.
Many system calls also use argument blocks exactly long enough for 8+3 names.
Some versions of Novell networks allow longer Unix-style names on files
stored on the net, but they do that by wrapping their own code around DOS
and reimplementing all of the file I/O calls on their own file system.
--
John R. Levine, Javelin Software Corp., Cambridge MA +1 617 494 1400
{ ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.EDU
The opinions expressed herein are solely those of a 12-year-old hacker
who has broken into my account and not those of any person or organization.
Re: Long File Names under MS-DOS?
Author: brown
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 06:24
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 06:24
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In article <44600005@datacube> berger@datacube.UUCP writes: > >Is there a way to tell MS-DOS to allow file names that are greater >than 8 characters long? You actually have 11 characters. The 8 character file name and the 3 character extension. But, unfortunately that is it. MS and PC-DOS is defined to that number by the logic with which the directory entries work. Remember it isn't UNIX. -- [Next quote over to you, Nyssa] ihnp4------\ harvard-\ \ Mr. Video seismo!uwvax!nicmad!brown topaz-/ / decvax------/
Re: Long File Names under MS-DOS?
Author: connery
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 23:14
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 23:14
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>
> Is there a way to tell MS-DOS to allow file names that are greater
> than 8 characters long?
>
> Thanks in adavance,
>
> Bob Berger
>
> Datacube Inc. 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 617-535-6644
>
> ihnp4!datacube!berger
> {seismo,cbosgd,cuae2,mit-eddie}!mirror!datacube!berger
No.
--
Glenn Connery, Bell Northern Research, Mountain View, CA
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!connery
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