Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/03/11:31:04
> 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
[[[ etc ]]]
Have you folks thought about giving the inode number to 8.3 filenames?
An LFN app might see C:\Really.Long\Path.with.lots.of.dos\file23.tar.gz
and an 8.3 app would see C:i32456.dat.
Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu
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