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to: Murray Lesser
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1999-10-31 00:01:00
subject: File Systems

 -=> Quoting Murray Lesser to Leonard Erickson <=-

 ML> You can format Iomega ZIP diskettes HPFS, complete with long file
 ML> names, if you insist and are willing to live with the restrictions.
 ML> (See the online manual that came with your OS/2 driver.)  It is a
 ML> nuisance, and you lose about 3 MB of file space, but it most certainly
 ML> is possible.  However, you can't put HPFS on floppies, because if you
 ML> could there wouldn't be any usable file space left :-(.  All this is
 ML> assuming that you have a good reason to use long file names.  I don't,
 ML> because my serious computer usage is done from the command line, where
 ML> long file names are a nuisance.

My main use for long file names at the moment is to keep track of
duplicate files (fonts, graphics, sound, etc) in the stuff that comes
over the internet.
 


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