On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:58:00AM -0500, Taavi Burns wrote:
IIRC OS/2 could only do long filenames with HPFS. Your DOS apps could access HPFS files through what looked like a network share, but long filenames would be totally masked. It was suboptimal, but possibly better than allowing two filenames (one explicit, one implicit) for one file.
There's a very happy "feature" of VFAT.
Create a file "Thisisaverylongfile2.txt". Note that the short version of this comes out as "THISIS~1.TXT".
Create a file "Thisisaverylongfile1.txt". Note that the short version of this comes out as "THISIS~2.TXT".
Now "del *1.TXT" and watch BOTH FILES DISSAPEAR.
Did you really mean to do that?
Last I tried most MS (DOS based at least) OSs didn't allow wildcards before other characters. abc*.txt is allowed *abc.txt is not. Not sure, but it may even match *.txt actually on some versions of DOS. That is pretty scary actually. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml