From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Current Directory Switches to Short Format on NT Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <3A36C6DF DOT C42AF097 AT averstar DOT com> <917utd$mf1$1 AT pippin DOT nask DOT waw DOT pl> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 9 X-Trace: 9+o0bj1jv2fmIF8zSSq3GylklxQ8vNJDLgcxOPfsOMqGVV1U9rpDeeT4b38yMj/msJSEKjoWy3CO!4+SaYepRmj5gAL+kWG+/4u26bYb+wPJkOSZVfNjs74cgtjsmZKkMWPNZOwVNG4LGjyG8mQiBzvgS!yawh X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:12:11 GMT Distribution: world Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 15:12:12 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:51:11 +0100, "Wojciech Galazka" wrote: >Basically Windows doesn't try to make any difference between short >and long file nanes as both are perfectly legal. Therefore, it's a bug in the database that stores the filenames. A database designed to run under Windows should always convert filenames to LFN or always convert filenames to SFN.