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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!alistair
- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: NTFS features - Drive Names?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.051134.20421@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 05:11:34 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul08.035346.10531@microsoft.com> <1992Jul09.235609.13142@news.mentorg.com> <Brquy8.JpH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <Brquy8.JpH@acsu.buffalo.edu> jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jon J. Allen) writes:
- >Does this new system get rid of those nasty drive letters. IE, being
- >able to use label names of drives like sys: and Engineering: rather
- >than to have to map them to Z: and Y:.
-
- This first version of Windows NT does not remove the A: -> Z: limit,
- though it does add long unicode file names. The drive mapping will
- change significantly with the Windows Cairo release (while of
- course a: -> z: still remain options). Windows cairo is not an
- imminent release, so don't wait for it! -- Alistair
-