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to: Jack Stein
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1999-09-15 00:44:01
subject: File Managers

 -=> Quoting Jack Stein to Paul Marwick <=-

 JS> I thought InspectA did not handle long filenames at all, nor large
 JS> partitions? At least that's what Roy was saying a while back, and he
 JS> uses InspectA, although IIRC it is the DOS version he uses. 

I use both the DOS and OS/2 versions. The DOS version *can't* handle
long file names. Neither can any other DOS program dealing with an HPFS
volume.

The OS/2 version "sort of" supports long file names. It won't display
*all* of one more than about 20 odd characters long (at least I can't
make it do so). It will copy, move and delete them ok. It has trouble
with passing them to programs if they need to be enclosed in quotes.

If a volume is too big, both versions report nonsense for the drive
size. Copying/moving files to a volume can get an "insufficient space"
response. On my Netware Volumes, I can just retry and it usually goes
thru the second time. 


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