Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 09:14:17 -0600 (MDT)
From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32
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> Therein lies one problem with the lookup table approach - I have seen 
> several packages using long "Linux" filenames in TGZ files, which use 
> filenames that have large similar portions, viz.
>
> open_file.c
> open_file.h
> open_file_mic.c
> open_file_mic.h
[[[ etc ]]]

Have you folks thought about giving the inode number to 8.3 filenames?
An LFN app might see C:\Really.Long\Path.with.lots.of.dos\file23.tar.gz
and an 8.3 app would see C:i32456.dat.

Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu