On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:12:19 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rebel wrote:
>> Do you mean that FAT16 doesnt allow longfilenames?
>> It's not true: even under FAT12 ( 3,5" floppy) you can have longfilenames.
> No, you can't - it's not FAT that stores the long file name. (or, well it
> is, sort of, but not as a file name.) It's the LFN system (which is NOT
> part of any FAT specification) that stores the LFN.
> But then again, you may put LFNs on whatever FAT type you wish, but FAT
> still doesn't support it - only LFN compatible programs/drivers.
petri.....which means that we don't have to worry about buggering
about with the file system (a lot of work) but just about coping with
and responding to (insome way) ADDITIONAL information tacked on to
whatever filesystem/filename we encounter in Arachne....???
gregy
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