Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:27:22 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
cc: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Temporary files considered unsafe
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Bill Currie wrote:

> ARE there 64 valid chars in a dos file name??? (ie 7bit) 8 bit gets
> messy due to dos converting lowercase chars to upper `randomly' based on
> the current code page (I assume dos goes by code page, I KNOW it
> converts them).

Sorry, I don't quite get you here.  Are you talking about the conversion 
done by Windows 9X to generate the 8+3 alias for a long name?  If not, 
which conversion did you have in mind?

> Hey, why not something like Robert Hoehne did in RHIDE, use tempory
> directories in the temp dir, only the dir name is a direct sprintf of
> the vmid, then ALL temp files are put in the appropriate sub dir.

The unique PID is needed not only for temporary files.