Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:24:56 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32 
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997 dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
<Applying Text Whacker 2001!>
> >Have you folks thought about giving the inode number to 8.3 filenames?
> Okay, so you download some documentation and save it:
> Now you want to browse it with your favourite file viewer. This isn't LFN 
> Now, which one was the tutorial? Ummmm...
> A better solution is to use some sort of hashing. For example, the above under 
> but GEOS doesn't use them. I hate to say this, but the Win95 way:

Ok, we're getting somewhere now, what you would need is a popup utility
which would let you 'browse' the inode numbers and see what the names
really are, something like a pig95 open dialog.  (sorry)