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- From: stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram)
- Subject: Re: DR-DOS and linux boot, 14 char filenames
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.113230.1588@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:32:30 GMT
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-
- Hi,
-
- [Remy CARD on the subject of filename length:]
-
- > Note that the limitation to 255 character is not really needed: with
- >1k blocks, we could limit the file names to 1012 characters (the header of a
- >directory entry is 8 bytes long) but I think that 255 is quite enough.
-
- 255 long enough?
- Hell no...
- Watch what happened to me...
- This is a listing of one of my directories:
-
- total 332
- drwx------ 2 stolk 512 Aug 24 15:19 ./
- drwxr-xr-x 14 stolk 1024 Sep 8 12:53 ../
- -rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 1581 Jan 26 1992 4d
- -rw------- 1 stolk 2617 Jun 18 1991 authors.sw
- -r--r--r-- 1 stolk 6224 Aug 27 1991 clock.exe
- -r--r--r-- 1 stolk 3139 Aug 27 1991 clock.pas
- -rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 2865 Jun 4 10:38 install.X11
- -rw-r--r-- 1 stolk 6634 Nov 14 1991 models.3d
- -rw------- 1 stolk 3954 Feb 27 1992 sigs
- -rw------- 1 stolk 301325 Sep 8 1992 linux.src.ver.0.97.patchlevel.4.betarelease.use.at.your.own.risk.released.at.8.september.includes.mem_manager.filesyst.extended_filesystem.kernel.internet_drivers.and.X11.support.with_shared_libs_for_use_with_gcc.2.2.2.d.p3.tar.arc.zip.lha.zoo.arj.bak.old
-
- Now at this directory I did:
-
- % compress linux.*
-
- And guess what?
- 'compress' messed up my files, because the .Z couldnt be added to the
- filename again.
- Could someone please remove that horrible 255 char limit? :-)
-
- By the way, about something totaly different.
- Are there any other people experiencing the same weird thing
- as I do, when I boot Linux?
- I get:
-
- > oading...................
- > L
-
- The dropped L..., is it caused by the antique EGA-card I am using?
-
- Take care you all, 'n keep up the great work,
-
-
- Bram Stolk
- stolk@fwi.uva.nl
-
-