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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:59:11 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> 
> > Ok, we're getting somewhere now, what you would need is a popup utility
> > which would let you 'browse' the inode numbers and see what the names
> > really are, something like a pig95 open dialog.  (sorry)
> 
> Again, we get into the issue of non-interactive usage and
> graphical applications that are unaware of the LFN's.  

You could always disable the popup and the program would either:

A) see only the first occurance.
B) see multiple occurance's.

If you should happen to save that file, then LFN is not even involved, 8.3
is used instead.

Hmmm, this gets complicated.

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