paul marwick wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Actually I have both versions running here.  And yes,  even the OS/2
 RJT> version is a little rough when it comes to long filenames,  it
 RJT> doesn't display the whole name.  And it barfs on bigger than 2G
 RJT> partitions,  as well.

 pm> InspectA displays long filenames without too many problems. In 
 pm> terms of the normal disply, it depends on how it is set up and 
 pm> there is a limit to the number of characters that it will 
 pm> display.

I haven't fiddled with display modes too much.

 pm> A trick for a long filename is to ivoke the FILES.BBS edit 
 pm> function - place the cursor over the long filename and press 
 pm> insert. Inspect will then prompt for a description to whatever 
 pm> the filename is. I've not seen it run out of display characters 
 pm> in that mode..

Yes,  that's one of my favorite features of the program.  And one of the
things I miss the most when I'm fiddling around under Linux (which doesn't
have the description stuff at all,  at least not with the tools I'm working
with).

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