Rachel Veraa wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RV> As I understand it, the Win95 long filename is just stored as 
 RV> an 8x3 DOS abbreviation, with the long name kept in a file 
 RV> someplace, to be reassembled. Only I don't know how this is 
 RV> done.  But for someone who knows programming, it seems like it 
 RV> wouldn't be too hard to read the long name of an HPFS file, and 
 RV> copy it to a FAT partition with the filename truncated at 6 
 RV> bytes plus a tilde and id number, and add the complete 
 RV> filesname to wherever Win95 keeps them -- and vice versa..

 RV> So I was hoping someone would've done that by now.

I see what you're trying to do there,  and don't have an answer for you
offhand. I will be looking with some interest to see what others may have to
say on the subject.

 RV>        N'a pale pi ta,
 RV>            Rachel

What does that mean?

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