From: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Tom Wheeley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 32-bit filenames
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 97 01:52:01 GMT
Organization: Adventures and Diving
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Message-ID: <852256321snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <32C03E84 DOT 5662 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> <19970103 DOT 123734 DOT 4431 DOT 1 DOT chambersb AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: tw104 AT york DOT ac DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Thursday, in article
     <19970103 DOT 123734 DOT 4431 DOT 1 DOT chambersb AT juno DOT com>
     chambersb AT juno DOT com "Benjamin D Chambers" wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Jan 1997 14:20:51 GMT weiqigao AT crl DOT com (Weiqi Gao) writes:
> >Someone <s2193209 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello all,
> >>  Having programmed with BorlandC for 5 years, I recently moved into
> >>GCC. Since GCC is 32-bit, I was wondering whether it would be 
> >possible
> >>to write a shell program which would allow the listing and i/o of 
> >32-bit
> >>filenames.
> >
> >Since DJGPP is for DOS and DOS doesn't have a "32-bit" file system, I
> >think it would be impossible to use the "32-bit" file names.  DJGPP
> >does support the long file names under Windows 95, but that's a kludge
> >of the "16-bit" file names, not a "32-bit" file name.
>
> I thought I'd apply simple counting to this problem... Let's see...
> 32-bits.... I think that's four bytes... Gee!  DOS already supports 64.24
> bit filenames (8.3 bytes) :)  IMHO, the bit size of the system has
> nothing to do with the filename system, since filenames are generally
> stored as strings (or similar).  After all, 16-bit dos can still give

Doh!  All of you forget that:

  16 bit == bad old style of doing things, whatever they were

  32 bit == incredible new invented by Microsoft way of doing the same old
            things using more memory and disk space and run a lot faster
            (but only when you upgrade your CPU and memory).

It's nothing at all to do with integer size or range of addressable memory
or register size or anything like that :-p

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