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"
 LE> (at least in my version of Netware). 

JdBP> I disagree.  The better way to fix this problem would be for OS/2's VDM 
    > kernel and the VDOS VDD to support the new DOS API calls 
    > that were created for MS-DOS version 7.  They mirror 
    > various existing DOS API calls, such as "open file", but 
    > allow the use of long filenames as parameters.


   I gotta agree with this. In fact, was thinking yesterday about 
   how it should be possible to create an IFS to do just this for 
   DOS and Win apps...

                                       LRA


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