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- From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: DR-DOS and linux boot, 14 char filenames
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.183851.2709@jussieu.fr>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:38:51 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.213636.26602@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Sep7.130606.25850@jussieu.fr> <1992Sep8.113230.1588@fwi.uva.nl>
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- In article <1992Sep8.113230.1588@fwi.uva.nl> stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram) writes:
- >
- >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
- ^^^^
- 1016 (I was wrong in my previous post).
-
- >>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? :-)
-
- Damned !! I should have tought of such descriptive names when implementing
- the directory handling routines in the ext fs !!! I feel confused for that 8-}
-
- >
- > Bram Stolk
- > stolk@fwi.uva.nl
-
-
- --
-
- Remy Card
- card@masi.ibp.fr
-