Sender: bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:24:02 +1300
From: Bill Currie <bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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?

The case conversion that dos ALWAYS does. 

> The unique PID is needed not only for temporary files.

Yeah :|, so Vic pointed out.

Bill
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