Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/07/22:46:39
On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Jonathan Tarbox - SSG wrote:
> The thing is, true we all hate the way Win95 hashes the Long Filename
> down to 8.3 standard, but if we then change this method for OD will not
> Win95 not comprehend it when we go back into Windows? What's so hard to
> have our DIR and other basic DOS internal commands to list both the LFN
> and hashed 8.3 name..
Which is what I'm implying for the new hash rules, we could keep in in
conformity with WIN(% and even take it one step further. Seeing that
we're re-writing the OS to support LFN's, and should we decide to do it
W(% style, the instead of using method of:
snag first six alpha chr's
tack on ~#
we instead:
snag first three alpha chr's of first word
take first letter of next three words
tack on ( ~# ) or ( ## ) (as an option, I hate '~' in a filename)
Not only do I think this is workable, it will produce a more meaningfull
8.3 name over what W(% does, and as long as we stick with the rules, we
could even create a utility which would allow us to reconstruct current
names without crashing W(% LFN support!
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