-=> Quoting Peter Knapper to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> Well, there *is* one reason for HPFS on removable media. Long
 LE> filenames. 

 PK> True.
 
 LE> At least until and unless OS/2 gets support for Win95 style
 LE> long file names. 

 PK> NO!!! We certainly DONT want a kludge like that thank-you!

Admittedly, it's a kludge. But it's also *common*, which means we need
to be able to import and export it.

It'd also be nice if OS/2 could "borrow" a trick from Netware. Netware
creates an 8.3 "alias" so that DOS programs *can* access such files.
The problem is that the name is neither predictable nor "settable" (at
least in my version of Netware). 

By "settable", I mean that I can't assign a *specific* 8.3 name to a
file *and* keep the long name. Something like the Unix trick of
pointing multiple directory entries at the same name would be the best
answer. I forget what the Unix command is. 

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