On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:04:09PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:

Taavi Burns wrote:

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DOS provided long filename support? Not that I remember. It all started with Windows 95.

It's moot, but I think it was the Windows 95 version of DOS, which stored long filenames with the 8.3 convention. So whateverfile.txt is stored in W95 DOS as whatev~1.txt

Yes, as Chris said, MS-DOS 7. It's not really clear which is which, though, since you can access files by their long or short names in both DOS 7 and Win9x. They both store both names; you can't put long filenames on FAT without having an 8.3 version, too. -- taa /*eof*/ -- 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