Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/03/01:02:35
On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Jim Lefavour wrote:
> > Warning! 8.3 programs will only see first occurance of file!
> >
> Therein lies one problem with the lookup table approach - I have seen
> several packages using long "Linux" filenames in TGZ files, which use
> filenames that have large similar portions, viz.
> open_file.c open_file.h open_file_mic.c open_file_mic.h
Well, a tar program I'm using right now does a neat job of this, they'd be
named:
> open_fil.c open_fi~.h open_fi'.c open_fi`.h
We could have it implement an approach like this when presenting LFN's to
a 8.3 program, or we could also have an option TSR which will intercept
the dir call and present YOU with the LFN's, which one(s) do you want the
program to see and how?
> c:\thisone\level.help\open_file.help
> c:\thisone\level.help.source\open_file.help.txi
Hmmm, either option A, or TSR, or name compression, ie:
> c:\thisone\levelhel\open_fil.hel
> c:\thisone\levelhel.sou\open_fil.txi
There's bound to be a dozen ways to skin this cat.
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