Taavi Burns wrote:

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:47:05AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

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That would be DOS 7 (aka win95). No version prior to Win95 (OR if you ran NT) could do long filenames on FAT. I think OS/2 had a way to do it though.

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.

I believe OS/2 supported long file names on the desktop, but had chopped names on the FAT file system. The long file name was stored as an extended attribute in a file called (IIRC) "EA DATA.SF".

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?

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