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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