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>  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...

JdBP> 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.


   Yeah, a VDD, that's what I meant...  :-)

   Seriously though, that would require a *replacement* of the VDD, 
   would it not?

                                       LRA


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