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       º Robert Jung announced features to be included  in  a  new º
       º version  of  ARJ  for which the first public beta will be º
       º released this summer. Robert Jung also asked for comments º
       º with particular emphasis on extracting  files  with  long º
       º filenames while doing so at DOS instead of in Windows.    º
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Robert:
     The issue of extracting long filenames to a flavor of DOS that 
can't use them is one in which there probably is no perfect answer. 
Nevertheless, I have two imperfect suggestions. (1) Truncate the name 
to the first 8 characters and the extension to the first 3. (i.e. 
AUTOMOTIVE.REPAIR would become AUTOMOTI.REP) Here, I'm assuming both 
filename and extension can be longer than they have been in DOS since 
I have not even seen Windows 95 in operation let alone learned the 
conventions for filenames in Windows 95. If extensions are still 3 
characters long, then, obviously, truncating the name would only be 
necessary.
     (2) On the other hand, it might be helpful to truncate as 
indicated in 1 while creating an ASCII file during extraction which 
lists the original long filename and the truncated filename for future 
reference. Thus, if someone has downloaded an archive with Windows 
files having long filenames, and extracts those files to a DOS-only or 
Windows-capable system predating Windows 95, they can take those files 
and the ASCII list file to work where they have Windows 95 and rename 
them appropriately. You might consider writing a small utility that 
can reference the list and a specified target disk drive and directory 
where matching files are to be found and renamed to their original 
long format. You could include CRC information in the list so that the 
wrong file of the same name is not renamed due to the user specifying 
the wrong target disk and/or directory when running the proposed 
utility program.
    On another matter: As long as you are headed for XMS memory 
swapping, can I get you to consider swap-to-disk where no XMS is 
available? I'm thinking in terms of those XTs still floating around in 
this world... :-)
                    Walter
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