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Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 16:06:21 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: mv bug (filutils? library?)
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Hello.

Richard Dawe wrote:
[snip]
> My current idea is that we could use _lfn_gen_short_fname to collapse
> "thisisalongname" to thisis~1. I thought about patching _truename, but that
> seems unsatisfactory. Any other ideas?
[snip]

This isn't such a great idea. _lfn_gen_short_fname apparently doesn't work on
Windows 2000 or XP. So that idea is out.

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]