-=> Quoting Ian Moote to LEONARD ERICKSON <=-

 LE> Well, there *is* one reason for HPFS on removable media. Long
 LE> filenames. At least until and unless OS/2 gets support for Win95
 LE> style long file names.
 LE>
 LE> I'm sure someone is going to mention using ZIP or some other
 LE> archiver. Many of the files I'm putting on the ZIP disks are things
 LE> I want *direct* access to. Not access thru an archiver.

 IM> OS/2 keeps track of long filenames on removable FAT drives. I just 
 IM> double-checked: I had a file on floppy named "JIM". I renamed it,
 IM> using  WPS, to "Jimbo a-logo!.blobbo.txt". Checking on my DOS laptop,
 IM> the  filename is now "JIMBO_A-.TXT", but it still comes up as "Jimbo a-
 IM> logo.blobbo.txt" on OS/2. [:)

That's nice. I'd like to be able to go one step farther and assign a
*specific* shortname to a file without losing the long name. Even if
it used up another directory entry. Then we'd be able to keep old
programs happy indefinitely and still use long filenames. Unix can do
this, I just forget the command.

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