Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:44:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: __file_tree_walk problem??
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, John & Susie wrote:

> > On what operating system did you run that program?  If that was
> > Windows 9X, is it possible that you had LFN set to N in the
> > environment?
> 
> No - Dos6.2 -- see above (also compiled in DOS6.2). This partition is
> visable to NT or DOS6.x only.

Yes, a FAT volume under NT is another case where you could see such
entries, since DJGPP programs cannot access long file names under NT.

> I ran NT's 'disk checking' on the partition and it showed no errors.
> Using NT I could easily copy the good files elsewhere, reformat the
> partiton and then copy them back, but is it something that needs
> corrected?

I don't think there's any real problem, I just didn't think about the
NT case when I wrote my message.

I believe that what you see is supposed to happen on a FAT volume used
by NT and then accessed under DOS.  You simply see the additional
directory entries left behind by NT for the long file names.