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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!modcomp!nigel
- From: nigel@modcomp.uucp (Nigel Gamble)
- Subject: Is filename truncation possible on FAT filesystems under OS/2?
- Organization: MODCOMP, an AEG company
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:56:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <nigel.715287393@fred>
- Sender: news@modcomp.uucp (Mr. News)
- Lines: 21
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- Under DOS, if your compiler tries to access a file as a result of an
-
- #include <bsd_types.h> /* 9 + 1 chars */
-
- directive, and you have a file named bsd_type.h (8 + 1 chars) in your
- include directory, everything works as you would expect: DOS trucates
- `bsd_types.h' to 8 character (plus extension) and the file `bsd_type.h'
- is opened.
-
- However, under OS/2 this does not work. Instead the compiler objects
- that it can't find `bsd_types.h'.
-
- Is there any was to force all file names to be truncated to 8 + 3
- (like DOS does) when using a FAT filesystem?
-
- (Yes, I'd like to install the compiler on an HPFS partition, but I'm
- not going to do this until I have some way of backing up HPFS partitions
- to tape.)
- --
- Nigel Gamble nigel@modcomp.com
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