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- From: d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Can Win 3.1 see HPFS long names?
- Summary: Question about long file names
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.185259.11038@lth.se>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 18:52:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.180900.197@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil> <1992Nov06.221639.22527@microsoft.com>
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- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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- In article <1992Nov06.221639.22527@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
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- >Windows in general and FileManager in particular has support for long file
- >names (ala HPFS) however it relies on the network driver to provide
- >the implementation. If you were looking at an HPFS share from a LanMan
- >server you would see the long file names, but it would appear that the
- >NetWare driver for Windows does not provide the required LFN functions.
- >
- >-Blake
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- DOes this mean that the applications can use long filenames too?
- Some applications (like Coreldraw 3.0) seem too check for the 8.3 pattern
- and reject anything that looks different. Will they work with
- long file names (using a appropriate network driver of course) ?
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- Ola Sigurdson | Internet: d89os@efd.lth.se |
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