Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:47:23 +0200
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:00:35 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > If we cannot find a way to fix this, I agree that we should simply
> > bypass those calls on XP and behave as if FNCASE were set to y.
> 
> I would like to be compatible if possible.  It looks like this might be
> possible to code directly (at least for 99% of the cases). If lfn=y,
> why not just use the first 8 chars before the period (in upper case)
> and the first 3 after the period?  If the name didn't originally match
> an 8.3 format we are going to fail matches against it anyway.  The only
> special cases I see are files starting with period and some special
> characters.

Are you proposing to replace the current code of _lfn_gen_short_name
with this?  If so, I think the code is going to be messy, because
there are quite a few special characters and special cases to deal
with.

I'd like to understand what happens inside _lfn_gen_short_name first.