Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/02/02/13:57:58
>I was thinking about a solution to use gcc 2.3.3 on a 8.3 dos file
>system. ...
>
>The idea is to intercept the "creat" and "open" calls either in the
>library or in go32 so that they generate unique file names for the
>TMPDIR. There will be need to keep a corespondance table between the
>long file names and the generated ones ...
The idea is a good one as long as you stay running programs under go32.
When you go to the "true" DOS universe, you will find lots of file names
like the following, which is the start of an xdir of my home directory
under the DOS emulater vpix (the DOS file names are on the left; the
Unix file names are on the right):
Volume of drive Z is Unix
Directory of \USR\JON\
. <DIR> 2/02/93 10:25a [rwrwr-] <109, 100> .
.. <DIR> 2/01/93 5:26p [rwrwr-] <000, 003> ..
X~UWM~AA 2296 4/10/92 3:04p [rwr-r-] <109, 100> x.uwmrc
~XMOD~AB 127 11/16/92 10:38a [rwr-r-] <109, 100> .Xmodmap
~NEWS~AC 9628 10/14/92 4:48p [rwr-r-] <109, 100> .newsrc.goback
~PROF~AD 927 7/20/90 4:42p [rwr-r-] <109, 100> .profile
BIN <DIR> 12/08/92 8:54p [rwr-r-] <109, 100> bin
~NN~~~AE <DIR> 2/01/93 4:20p [rwr-r-] <109, 100> .nn
Jonathan Ryshpan <jon AT halsp DOT hitachi DOT com>
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