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to: Leonard Erickson
from: Eddy Thilleman
date: 1999-10-30 11:46:03
subject: File Systems

Hello Leonard,

28 Oct 99 00:05, Leonard Erickson wrote to Peter Knapper:

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!

I agree with Peter. :)

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

I have no reason to think it's technically impossible to write a driver that
does this or something like this. So I think it's technically possible to
write a driver that does this or something like this.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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