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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 12:47:39 -0400
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: Rik! <rmeber AT maila DOT wm DOT edu>
Subject: long filename problems...
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i'm trying to keep my OpenDOS and Win95 partitions seperate, but i forgot
to remove some long filenames from a couple files on the OpenDOS partition.
now, when i try to delete the directory they used to be in (i deleted them,
thinking it would eliminate the LFNs as well) i get an error saying the
directory isn't empty. i've been looking around the web at pages that refer
to this problem but have yet to find a solution. is there any way to
totally eradicate all LFNs from my OpenDOS partition, safely?

** WARNING!! opinions being presented!! USE CAUTION WHILE READING!! **
i think that OpenDOS should totally avoid LFNs, at least in the crappy way
Win95 does. One of my main reasons for hating Win95 is the crappy FAT
system. as soon as Win98 comes out i'm switching over to FAT32 on that
partition. OpenDOS should stick with the FAT16 filesystem and ignore
Win95's horrible extensions. maybe we should create our own filesystem, or
adopt another one, like NTFS or ext2. at least with ext2 we'd be moving
closer to Linux, and away from Windows. i would think that most of the
people here who use OpenDOS do so because they don't like Win95, and i'm
pretty sure a lot of us also use Linux. besides, isn't Caldera trying to
position OpenDOS as an OS that will be cooperating and peacefully
co-existing with Linux machines over networks? adopting ext2 would bring us
closer to this goal.

then again, these are just my opinions.

rik eberhardt.
optikal studios