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- From: hak@vip.at (Herbert Klackl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: CrossDos
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 23:29:13 GMT
- Organization: EUnet EDV DienstleistungsgesmbH, Wien
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- In a message from 29-Jan-96 04:27:43, Kolbjxrn Barmen wrote:
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- >Herbert Klackl (hak@vip.at) wrote:
- >: In a message from 28-Jan-96 01:01:55, Ian Print wrote:
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- >: >Does anyone know if there is a version of CrossDos or something
- >: >similar that will read Windows95 long filenames? Or if anything is
- >: >planned for this in the future?
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- >: Well, the last time (yesterday) I transferred files from a PC, Windows95
- >: wrote the files to the disk with the old 8+3 name format. Maybe to stay
- >: downwards compatible. So it was no problem to use this disk with CrossDos.
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- >Could you check the commentfield to see if there're any long filenames there
- >?
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- Sorry couldn't do that.
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- I asked a friend who owns a PC and he states that Win95 stores the long
- filenames in a hidden file. Anyhow, I don't know, why long filenames are so
- important since most of the files I get from PCs are .lha-files. And if there
- are filenames that have the same first 8 characters (e.g. filenamea.lha,
- filenameb.lha) they will be renamed as (filena~1.lha, filena~2.lha).
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- Bye Herby
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