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

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

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

Creating an IFS wouldn't do any good.  What is required is a VDD.  If is the
VDD layer that filters out the non-8.3 filenames, not the IFS drivers.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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