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- From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
- Subject: HPFS File Names (Was Re: Damned good recovery)
- Message-ID: <Lrf-Y7-@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 15:02:12 EDT
- Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
- References: <GKUSHMER.92Aug11130348@jade.tufts.edu> <Gary.Woodman.606.713670434@anu.edu.au> <1992Aug13.135134.19106@msc.cornell.edu> <1992Aug20.142854.5032@gw.wmich.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.142854.5032@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- |> >
- |> > I'm a Mac user who simply follows the competition out of interest, but
- |> > something I wonder about. Isn't OS/2 supposed to come with HPFS which means
- |> > you can use decent filenames that use upper and lower case and spaces, have
- |> > file types attached and can be reasonably long? If so, why are you people
- |> > all using these ridiculous names like SVGADATA.PMI? Do you realize how
- |> > childish thsi makes your OS look? I might at some point switch to OS/2, but
- |> > certainly not while all public evidence I see of it makes it look like ist
- |> > still has all the gorgeous DOS file system features as far as the user is
- |> > concerned.
- |> >
- |> > Maynard Handley
- |>
- |> The reason for that is because you can use the DOS file system if you
- |> want to to install os/2 onto. With this in mind, the install files have to
- |> have that silly old 8.3 format. On my system, for example, I have folders
- |> with names like "Other files" or "Archived Shareware".
- |>
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- What would be really nice is if you could assign your own 8.3 name to
- any file and have DOS applications use that filename instead of
- simply being blind to the file. For example, I would like to have
- some subdirectories which contain only 8.3 names. Unfortunately all
- parent directories must also conform to 8.3 names for DOS applications
- to see the files. For example, I might want to have a directory
- called 'My Subdirectory' and have a subdirectory called 'Word Perfect 5.1'
- and then have files contained in the 'Word Perfect 5.1' directory
- which conform to 8.3. If you define a program object for Word Perfect
- and tell it that the working directory is 'c:\My Subdirectory\Word Perfect 5.1',
- Word Perfect is completely blind to any files in the working
- directory, even if they meet the 8.3 criteria. As a result, I have
- to resort to primitive names or come up with an alternative (and
- probably less intuitive) directory structure.
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