Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/03/19:51:00
Once upon a time (on 3 Feb 97 at 9:14) Roger Ivie said:
> > 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.
Or, as I wrote in the other post, a number/version tag stored in the dirent,
and shown on dir like this (for the above filename):
FILE23.GZ(12)
or, another solutin which I saw in some FAT FS extension a few years ago, to
use the unused dirent space to store more letters for filename.
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